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020    9781617700453 |qpaperback
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035    (OCoLC)ocn789147497
035    228402
040    LHM |beng |erda |cLHM
050 00 KF4772 |b.N43 2012
100 1  Neier, Aryeh, |d1937-
245 10 Defending my enemy : |bAmerican Nazis, the Skokie case, and the risks of freedom / |cAryeh Neier.
264  1 New York : |bInternational Debate Education Association, |c[2012]
264  4  |c©2012
300    195 pages ; |c23 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
500    Reprint. Originally published: New York : Dutton, c1979. With new foreword.
500    Includes index.
505 0  Understanding media -- "Never again" -- A symbolic assault -- "Freedom for the thought we hate" -- "Poisonous evenhandedness" -- The constant battle -- "They have rights?" -- The risks of freedom -- England : the risks of repression -- Weimar Germany : abandoning moral authority.
520    "Are Nazis entitled to freedom of expression? In 1977, Frank Collin, leader of the National Socialist Party of America, sought to hold a Nazi march in Skokie, Illinois. Skokie had one of the largest Holocaust survivor populations outside New York City. In this Chicago suburb, over half the population was Jewish. The proposed march sparked a host of legal actions: the Village of Skokie asked for an injunction to prevent the Nazis from marching, and new ordinances were adopted to do so; Collin applied to hold a march on a later date, but was denied; an ACLU lawsuit was brought in federal court, seeking to invalidate the new ordinances Skokie had put in place to prevent the march. In the end, Collin and the Nazis did not march in Skokie, but the Illinois Supreme Court ruled for free speech in 1978. The ACLU felt severe consequences, organizational and financial, of what was seen by many members as an insidious, pro-Fascist position. Writing from his perspective as national executive director of the ACLU, Aryeh Neier tells the story, and ponders the consequences, of Skokie and other cases in which the enemies of freedom have claimed for themselves the rights that they would deny to others"--Provided by publisher.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Freedom of speech |zUnited States.
650  0 Assembly, Right of |zUnited States.
610 20 National Socialist Party of America.
610 20 American Civil Liberties Union.
650  0 Demonstrations |zIllinois |zSkokie.
650  0 Jews |xPolitical activity |zUnited States.
852 0   |bstacks |hKF4772 |i.N43 2012