Summary: Today is the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision declaring Bible reading in public schools unconstitutional. At the center of the case was Madalyn Murray O'Hair, the famous atheist. We hear about O’Hair’s successful challenge of the Baltimore school board from Mark Graber, associate dean and professor of law and government at the University of Maryland School of Law; Michael Meyerson, professor of law at the University of Baltimore and author of Endowed by Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America; journalist and novelist Dan Fesperman, who covered O’Hair’s later years for The Baltimore Sun; and Ann Rowe Seaman, author of The Most Hated Woman in America.
