Chicago women of Czechoslovakia ancestry in native costumes to protest meeting. About 65,000 gathered for the affair on Sept. 25, 1938. “Sixty-five thousand persons gathered in and near the Chicago Stadium yesterday to cheer predictions that Czechoslovakia will not fall victim to Nazi aggression,” wrote the Tribune on Sept. 26, 1938. “The meeting, arranged by several Czecho-slovak societies of Chicago, was preceded by three parades in which several thousand, many in native costumes, participated,” (Chicago Tribune historical photo)
