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Echoes of a Nightmare (1987)Video provided by Skokie Public Library Digital Collections (source)
Documentary about the efforts of the National Socialist Party of America to hold a rally in Skokie in the late 1970s. Filmed in and around Skokie and Chicago, this film captures all the major participants: Skokie residents, Holocaust survivors, representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union, and the neo-Nazis during the height of the controversy.
Video length: 26 minutes
Video provided by PBS (source)
Examines the personalities and issues connected to the attempted neo-Nazi March in Skokie in the late 1970s. The film makes extensive use of archival footage and contemporary interviews to reveal how a debate over First Amendment rights inspired Holocaust survivors to become activists.
Video length: 28 minutes
Video provided by Annenberg Classroom (source)
This film explores the First Amendment right of the “people peaceably to assemble” through the lens of the U.S. Supreme Court case National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie
Video length: 29 minutes
Skokie Memories of a March.movVideo provided by Skokie Public Library Digital Collections (source)
Interviews with Judge Harvey Schwartz, Rabbi Neil Brief, Ron Gould, and Jackie Melinger.
Video length: 8 minutes
Host Nico Perrino is joined by Goldberger to discuss his half century of practice in First Amendment law — including his four (successful) trips to the U.S. Supreme Court. He is most widely known for his role as lead attorney in what’s simply become known as “the Skokie case.”
The transcript of the episode is available.
Podcast length: 42 minutes
On the afternoon of July 9, 1978, white supremacists wearing Nazi uniforms held a rally in Chicago’s Marquette Park. The majority of people living in the area of Marquette Park did not see themselves as sympathetic to Nazism, but many did support the goal of keeping Black people out of their all-white neighborhood.
Video length: 5 minutes. Video and article from EJI (source)
Archive videos are 1-3 minutes long. Videos include: Reverend Edgar Jackson, David Goldberger, the ACLU, the Chicago press, Mayor Harold Washington of Chicago and more.
Pictured: Still of the Chicago press at a news conference in Chicago Marquette Park (source)
Surviving Skokie (Amazon Prime Video)
Surviving Skokie is an intensely personal documentary by former Skokie resident Eli Adler about the provocative events of the 1970s, their aftermath, his family's horrific experience of the Shoah, and a journey with his father to confront long-suppressed memories.
Near Normal Man (Amazon Prime Video)
Near Normal Man is a half-hour documentary film, told in a first-hand account by Ben Stern, a Polish Jew, who survives 2 ghettos, 9 concentration camps and 2 death marches. He emerges alive, only to face the Nazis again – 30 years later, this time in Skokie, Illinois.
Skokie, Rights or Wrong, 1980 (Interlibrary Loan)
Documents the controversy through interviews with National Socialist Party of America leaders, American Civil Liberties Union representatives, concentration camp survivors, and Reverend Jesse Jackson.
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