Ellery's protest how one young man defied tradition & sparked the battle over school prayer / [electronic resource] :
How one young man defied tradition and sparked the battle over school prayer
Stephen D. Solomon.
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.
- xi, 414, [8] p. of plates : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-390) and index.
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?
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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Schempp, Edward--Trials, litigation, etc. Schempp, Ellery Frank, 1940- --Trials, litigation, etc.
Abington School District (Abington, Montgomery County, Pa.)--Trials, litigation, etc.
Prayer in the public schools--Law and legislation--United States. Church and state--United States.