The Long, Sometimes Painful History of the First Amendment

The Long, Sometimes Painful History of the First Amendment
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National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie (1977)
After being asked for a large insurance bond to march in Chicago's southwest side, a neo-Nazi group led by Frank Collin, above, said it would march instead in a Jewish suburb where many Holocaust survivors lived. The case made its way to the Supreme Court, where the justices upheld the right of the NSPA to assemble while displaying swastikas.

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