Book Review: Ellery’s Protest by Stephen D. Solomon

Published: September 24, 2007, 5:57 pm

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On the morning of November 26th, 1956, Ellery Schempp would engage in a small act of protest that would suck the nation into political and theological turmoil that exists to this day. In his homeroom at Abington Senior Highschool in Abington Township, a suburb to the north of Philadelphia, during the morning devotionals in which the King James Bible was read, Ellery quietly sat and read silently out of the Koran. Thus was the stage set for Stephen D. Solomon’s Ellery’s Protest, a riveting telling of the backlash that Ellery’s quiet protest caused and so much more. In truth, Elleryis significantly more than a mere history of Schempp and the court proceedings that resulted, instead following the fates of four separate court cases and their race to the Supreme Court. Playing in the background was Leo Pfeffer, a lawyer for the American Jewish Congress, and a strong opponent of prayer in the public schools. Despite this, however, Pfeffer proves to be more

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