An Alabama parent, he objected to prayer in his children’s classrooms. The Supreme Court ruled for him, a high-water mark in the push for the strict separation of church and state.
An Alabama parent, he objected to prayer in his children’s classrooms. The Supreme Court ruled for him, a high-water mark in the push for the strict separation of church and state.
Ishmael Jaffree outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 1984. The next year, the court ruled in his favor in his challenge to Alabama laws that had made it easier to bring prayer into the classroom.