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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Solomon, Stephen D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Abington School District (Abington, Montgomery County, Pa.) > Trials, litigation, etc.
Schempp, Edward > Trials, litigation, etc.
Prayer in the public schools > Law and legislation > United States.
Church and state > United States.
Schempp, Ellery Frank, > 1940- > Trials, litigation, etc.
Table of 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?