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Potential Sources

Delgado, Richard, and Jean Stefancic. Must We Defend Nazis?: Hate Speech, Pornography, and the New First Amendment. New York: NYU Press, 1997.

Downs, Donald Alexander. Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1985.

Hamlin, David. The Nazi/Skokie Conflict: A Civil Liberties Battle. Boston: Beacon Press, 1980.

Neier, Aryeh. Defending My Enemy: American Nazis, the Skokie Case, and the Risks of Freedom. 1st ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1979.

Strum, Philippa. When the Nazis Came to Skokie: Freedom for Speech We Hate. [Lawrence, Kan.]: University Press of Kansas, 1999.

November 6 Edits

Original Lead: National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, 432 U.S. 43 (1977),[1]arising out of what is sometimes referred to as the Skokie Affair,[2]is a United States Supreme Courtcase dealing with freedom of speechand freedom of assembly. Related court decisions are captioned Collin v. Smith[3]and Smith v. Collin.[4]Although summarily decided on procedural grounds, the necessary implication of the Supreme Court's 1977 NSPAdecision — not directly stated in the unsigned, 5-4 per curiamopinion itself[1]— is that a group's request to engage in a parade or demonstration involving public display of the Nazi swastika is a symbolic form of free speech that is at least presumptively entitled to First Amendmentprotections. In other words, the Court's decision implies that First Amendment protection would not be denied to use of the swastika as a form of "fighting words". Three of the four dissenters stated their agreement with the majority's position that First Amendment protections were applicable to the NSPA's challenge to the Illinois injunction. (Only Justice Whitedid not join that statement.) By requiring the state court to consider the neo-Nazis' appeal without delay, the U.S. Supreme Court decision opened the door to allowing the National Socialist Party of America to march.


  • Plan: Look at Strum, Downs, and Delgado's arguments about the opinion and its implications of the case as well as what the dissenters said. Reword third sentence to make more concise.

Edits:

Original Background: In 1977, Frank Collin, the leader of National Socialist Party of America, announced the party's intention to march through Skokie, Illinois. Skokie was home to a significant number of Jewish people, many of them survivors of the Holocaust.[5] Originally, the NSPA had planned a political rally in Marquette Park in Chicago; however the Chicago authorities blocked these plans by requiring the NSPA to post a public safety insurance bond and by banning political demonstrations in Marquette Park.

On behalf of the NSPA, the ACLU challenged the injunction issued by the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, that prohibited marchers at the proposed Skokie rally from wearing Nazi uniforms or displaying swastikas. The ACLU was represented by civil rights attorneys David Goldberger[6] (later a professor at Ohio State's law school[7]) and Burton Joseph.[8][9] The challengers argued that the injunction violated the First Amendment rights of the marchers to express themselves.

  • Plan: Give more details about what happened. Already edited the sentence about the demographics of Skokie. Want to clarify timeline about Marquette park. Will also provide more details about events leading up to the first injunction filed by the Village of Skokie.

Edits: In October 1976, Frank Collin sent out letters to the park districts of the North Shore suburbs of Chicago, stating his intention to hold a demonstration for his white power movement. These letters requested permits to Skokie Park District was the only suburb to reply.

References

  1. ^ a b National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie, 432 U.S. 43 (1977) (per curiam).
  2. ^ Frank Colllin, et al. v. Albert Smith, et al., Skokie Public Library (last visited August 4, 2018).
  3. ^ Collin v. Smith, 578 F.2d 1197 (7th Cir. 1978).
  4. ^ Smith v. Collin, 439 U.S. 916 (1978) (denying certiorari).
  5. ^ Philippa., Strum, (1999). When the Nazis came to Skokie : freedom for speech we hate. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas. p. 7. ISBN 0700609407. OCLC 39936668. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "New Film Explores Skokie's Battle with Neo-Nazis". Chicago Tonight.
  7. ^ Professors: David A. Goldberger, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law (last visited August 4, 2018).
  8. ^ Grimes, William (April 4, 2010). "Burton Joseph, Lawyer in First Amendment Cases, Is Dead at 79". The New York Times. p. A22.
  9. ^ Burnette, Daarel (April 1, 2010). "Burton Joseph, 1930-2010: Attorney championed civil rights". Chicago Tribune.