[ACLU-CU ALERT] WILL-TV to rebroadcast 1st Amendment Film

Champaign County ACLU Announcements announce at aclu-cu.org
Fri Mar 16 11:48:20 MDT 2012


"The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today", the 2010 award-winning documentary by former ACLU steering committee member Jay Rosenstein, will be broadcast on WILL-TV on March 21st at 9PM.  The one-hour film details the personal saga of Vashti McCollum and her family during the years 1944-48 as she challenged the Champaign school district policy (common nation-wide at the time) of "released time" for religious instruction in the classroom, taught by outside clergy and laypeople from various faiths.  It follows the case to the Supreme Court where McCollum vs. Board of Education became a landmark decision that confirmed the separation of church and state.

See also: www.jayrosenstein.com
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