Vashti McCollum
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Vashti Cromwell McCollum (November 6, 1912 – August 20, 2006) was the plaintiff in the landmark 1948 Supreme Court case McCollum v. Board of Education, which struck down religious education in public schools. The defendant in the case was the public school district of Champaign, Illinois; instructors chosen by three religious faiths had taught religion classes within the district's schools.
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Vashti McCollum
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Vashti McCollum
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Vashti McCollum
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Champaign, Illinois
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2006-08-20
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Lyons, New York
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1912-11-06
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Vashti Ruth Cromwell
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BA Liberal Arts and Sciences, MA Mass Communications
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Mr. and Mrs Arthur G. Cromwell
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John Paschal McCollum
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Vashti Cromwell McCollum (November 6, 1912 – August 20, 2006) was the plaintiff in the landmark 1948 Supreme Court case McCollum v. Board of Education, which struck down religious education in public schools. The defendant in the case was the public school district of Champaign, Illinois; instructors chosen by three religious faiths had taught religion classes within the district's schools. McCollum wrote a book on the case, One Woman's Fight (1953), became a world traveler and served two terms as president of the American Humanist Association from 1962 to 1965. She was also a signer of the Humanist Manifesto II in October 1973 and the Humanist Manifesto III in 2003. In 1948, McCollum made this statement to The New York Times: "As long as the public school is used to recruit the child into any religious denomination or to segregate children as per varying religious doctrines or whose power of truancy is employed to make them attend theology classes, I'm against it".
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Vashti Ruth Cromwell
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