Does that episode give you any guidance now? ROMERO: Of course. Illinois ACLU bravely defended the right of the Nazis to march, even as they lost members and money. SIMON: I broke into this business covering the Nazi plans to march in Skokie, Ill., in the late '70s.
The notoriety of the case caused some ACLU members to resign, but to many others the case has come to represent the ACLU.
In 1978, the ACLU took a controversial stand for free speech by defending a neo-Nazi group that wanted to march through the Chicago suburb of Skokie, where many Holocaust survivors lived.
