Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Orginal Publication Date
1982
Journal Title
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Volume
2
Issue
ess/vol2/iss1
First Page
24
Last Page
25
Abstract
David Hamlin, the Executive Director of the Illinois American Civil Liberties Union at the time, recounts in this book the story of the battle over attempts by the National Socialist Party of America, led by John Collin, to hold a demonstration in Skokie, Illinois, in 1977. To the ACLU, this was a "classic First Amendment case" (p. 53) of the sort it has regularly handled, but it developed into a cause celebre which eventually resulted in temporary damage to the ACLU in Illinois and the nation. A straightforward, factual account, unfortunately without footnotes, which tries to describe all aspects of the conflict, the book is written in a lucid style.
Rights
Copyright, ©EES, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1982