When the Nazis Came to Skokie: Freedom for the Speech We Hate

by Philippa Strum

Book Overview

In the Chicago suburb of Skokie, one out of every six Jewish citizens in the late 1970s was a survivor--or was directly related to a survivor--of the Holocaust. These victims of terror had resettled in America expecting to lead peaceful lives free from persecution. But their safe haven was shattered when a neo-Nazi group announced its intention to parade there in 1977. Philippa Strum's dramatic retelling of the events in Skokie (and in the courts)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700609415
• ISBN13: 9780700609413
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"