SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE - RELIGION IN SCHOOLS

8 March 2012

- IT'S HAILING, MARY -

 1948 - The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that religious instructions in public schools was unconstitutional. The case was McCollum v. Board of Education. The case was an early test of the the separation of church and state with respect to education. On March 8, 1948, the Court ruled 8-1 in favor of McCollum, ruling that the classes were unconstitutional.

Method: two religious candles on a book being held up next the cross on my sidetable.