For years, Barfield had been resisting what he describes as mission drift: a retreat by the nation’s premier free-speech ...
Village of Skokie. As Goldberger recounted in 2020 for the ACLU, it all began in April 1977 when he got a call from the ...
In 1978, Nazis marched in Skokie, Illinois, embroiling the country in an argument about free speech. The dispute drew national attention. After the march was initially cancelled, the ACLU took ...
That’s a real 180 from the ACLU of decades past — which, in 1977, even sent Jewish lawyers to defend the free speech rights ...