#AnneFrank
"In the summer of 1977, on a trip to Europe, I visited the real Anne Frank house in the Netherlands. Unlike the replica on display in New York, it has no homey touches like beds and desks, only bare walls. When I returned enlightened to Chicago, I learned the local Nazis planned to march in Skokie.
That led to months of bitter debate and court battles with the American Civil Liberties Union supporting the Nazis on First Amendment grounds of free speech. Eventually, the marchers won their case but staged only a brief and minor demonstration at a federal building in Chicago, not Skokie.
If this episode sounds dated, consider something from President Donald Trump’s first term, when Trump discovered 'very fine people on both sides' after a 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where mostly young, white, male marchers carried torches and chanted 'Jews will not replace us!'
A counter-protestor died when she was intentionally run over by a car. The Frank exhibit and this sort of demonstration remind us of where this stuff can lead. Its stay in New York has been extended through October, but also has been designed to travel."
https://www.daily-sun.com/post/792306