Schempp, which declared public school-sponsored religious activity unconstitutional.Ī lifelong Unitarian Universalist, Schempp remained active in church-state causes and social justice issues all of this life. Their case resulted in the 1963 landmark Supreme Court ruling Abington Township School District v.
In the early 1960s, Schempp and his son Ellery challenged mandatory recitation of the Lord's Prayer and readings from the King James Version of the Bible in a suburban Philadelphia public school. Schempp, a long-time activist for church-state separation who played a key role in a crucial 1963 case striking down coercive religious activity in public schools, died Nov.
2003 Americans United for Separation of Church and State 17 Aug. MLA style: "Ed Schempp, plaintiff in 1963 school prayer case, dies at age 95." The Free Library.
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