Read the 1978 ACLU Pamphlet "Why the American Civil Liberties Union Defends Free Speech for Racists and Totalitarians" I remember other instances of unexpected support, too. There were times when, ...

In 1977, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) went to court to defend the rights of American neo-Nazis to march through the streets of Skokie, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago home to many ...

The ACLU took a controversial stand for free speech by defending a Nazi group that wanted to march through the Chicago suburb of Skokie — where many Holocaust survivors lived. The notoriety of the ...

Forty years ago, in 1977, as the Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, I defended the right of a small group of Chicago-area neo-Nazis to hold a march in Skokie, Illinois. At the time ...

Skokie: The legacy of the ... But one Jewish person who stood up for Collin's right to march was David Goldberger, his lawyer from the American Civil Liberties Union.

“It was inevitable that the ACLU would defend the 1st Amendment in Skokie,” its director David Hamlin wrote in a Tribune op-ed. “The ACLU is more than 55 years old, ...

When I asked this former staffer if they thought today’s ACLU would still defend the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois, the landmark ACLU case of 1977, ...

When I asked this former staffer if they thought today’s ACLU would still defend the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois, the landmark ACLU case of 1977, they said “yes” but with ...

It was a call he didn't expect, let alone want, back on April 27, 1977. At the time, David Goldberger was a lawyer for the Illinois chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and was ...

Skokie (1977), in which the American Civil Liberties Union represented neo-Nazis who had been enjoined from holding a demonstration in an Illinois village with a large Jewish population.

“It was inevitable that the ACLU would defend the 1st Amendment in Skokie,” its director David Hamlin wrote in a Tribune op-ed. “The ACLU is more than 55 years old, ...