| Armed with the Constitution: Jehovah's Witnesses in Alabama and the U.S Supreme Court, 1939-1946 First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Newton, Merlin Owen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0817312285 ISBN-13: 9780817312282 Publisher: University Alabama Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Legal History - Religion | Religion, Politics & State - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 342.73 |
| LCCN: 94003993 |
| Series: Religion and American Culture (University of Alabama) |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.02" W x 9.18" (0.88 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Alabama |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Underscores the importance of "little people" in affecting the US government Armed with the Constitution stresses the courage of a black man, Rosco Jones, and a white woman, Grace Marsh, who dared to challenge the status quo in Alabama in the early 1940s. These two Jehovah's Witnesses helped to lay a foundation for testing the constitutionality of state and local laws, establishing precedents that the Civil Rights movement, the feminist movement, and similar forces could follow. Newton has prepared a finely woven tale of oral, legal, and social history that opens a window on the world of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Alabama. More than a legal study, this book is also a dramatic history of two powerful personalities whose total commitment to their faith enabled them to carry the Jehovah's Witnesses' battle from rural Alabama to the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court. |