Ira Glasser returns to the scene of the crime. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
Ira Glasser, national American Civil Liberties Union executive director from 1978 to 2001 and the subject of the biopic Mighty Ira (2020), remains passionate about free speech and baseball. As head of the New York Civil Liberties Union, he joined with the ACLU of Illinois in 1977 to defend the rights of American neo-Nazis to march through the Chicago suburb of Skokie, where about half the residents were Jewish, many of them Hol-ocaust survivors. (The group won the case on First Amendment grounds, but 30,000 ACLU
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