Ellery's protest : how one young man defied tradition & sparked the battle over school prayer / Stephen D. Solomon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solomon, Stephen D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prayer in the public schools--Law and legislation--United States.

Prayer in the public schools.

Church and state--United States.

Church and state.

Abington School District (Abington, Montgomery County, Pa.)--Trials, litigation, etc.

Abington School District (Abington, Montgomery County, Pa.).

Schempp, Edward--Trials, litigation, etc.

Schempp, Edward.

Schempp, Ellery Frank, 1940---Trials, litigation, etc.

Schempp, Ellery Frank.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (437 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

How one young man defied tradition and sparked the battle over school prayer

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An engrossing story of one of the landmark cases in First Amendment history.

Contents:

Ellery's protest

The making of a rebel

Byse breaks the deadlock

The sage and the upstart

The colonists united church and state

How religious diversity changed America

Diversity forces religion from the schools

Excessive religious zeal

"Mr. Schempp, do you believe in the divinity of Christ?"

Is the Bible sectarian?

Why not recite the Navaho invocation to beauty?

The race to the Supreme Court

"Colored by our own experiences"

Passion plays for all

Back to Judge Biggs

New York's "clay-footed pigeon"

Fifty-one Buddhist children

In chambers

Days of Defiance

Does Schempp have a future?

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-390) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-55596-0

9786612555961

0-472-02609-7

OCLC:

647917140