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, ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The American Civil Liberties Union is one of the best-known civil rights organizations in the U.S., defending First Amendment freedoms for everyone, regardless of their views. Here are nine things ...

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, ...

That’s a real 180 from the ACLU of decades past — which, in 1977, even sent Jewish lawyers to defend the free speech rights of uniformed neo-Nazis marching through Skokie, Illinois.

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.

As a young lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, David Goldberger defended the rights of Nazis to hold a demonstration in Skokie, Ill., a village that was home to many Jewish residents ...

“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, ...