Is Antisemitism an “Exceptional Hatred?”
In 1977, a man named Frank Collin announced that he planned to march his fellow neo-Nazis through Skokie, Illinois, a Chicago suburb where roughly one in ten residents had survived the death camps. Chicago had already blocked him from marching there, and his history of violence and property damage offered the city an easy “no.”
PS. Frank Collin was the son of a German Jewish Holocaust survivor.
The ACLU took his case anyway, on First Amendment grounds, and Skokie became the defining American test of whether even the most hateful speech deserves protection.
That fight did not end in 1978. It…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.