Opinion: 'Free speech doesn't work just when you agree with it'

✍️ Scott Simon 📅 September 27, 2025 12:00 AM 🕐 Scraped: October 02, 2025

Summary: NPR's Scott Simon recalls a First Amendment case from the late 1970s involving the rights of a neo-Nazi group to march through a predominantly Jewish suburb of Chicago.

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In 1977, a neo-Nazi group called the National Socialist Party of America applied for a permit to march through Skokie, Illinois, a predominantly Jewish, Chicago suburb.

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