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Mar 11, 2016 · Credit: Sun-Times. The story of Nazism in Chicago began nearly 15 years earlier with the foundation of the Chicago chapter of the Teutonia Society, a group made up of working-class German...
Unite the Right rally – a white supremacist rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia from August 11–12, 2017, that rally has frequently been compared to the German American Bund's rally in Madison Square Garden on February 20, 1939.
- February 20, 1939
- Nazi rally
- More than 20,000
- Madison Square Garden
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Aug 23, 2017 · History Dept. When Nazis Filled Madison Square Garden. In 1939, a Bund rally in New York turned violent—and ultimately doomed that era’s American Nazi movement.
Sep 6, 2018 · The following year, Mussolini sent the column to Chicago to commemorate Balbo’s flight, and it was installed in front of the Fair’s Italian Pavilion. 40,000 people attended its unveiling, and a speech by Balbo was broadcast by radio from Italy.
Jul 10, 2008 · It didn't happen then—and today, on the 75th anniversary of Balbo's flight, Chicago still honors the Fascist scoundrel. "Movements to change the street name have never gained steam, because the ...
Feb 3, 2016 · Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a Chicago Freedom Movement rally at the field June 21 1964 that drew 75,000. Longtime Chicago Daily News columnist and author Mike Royko even ...
Aug 17, 2017 · Given to the city of Chicago in 1933 by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, the monument is an ancient Corinthian column atop of a podium with an inscription that honors fascist Italy and...
