Armed with the Constitution: Jehovah’s Witnesses in Alabama and the U.S Supreme Court, 1939-1946 (Religion and American Culture (University of Alabama))

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This fascinating history underscores the significance of “little people” in affecting the U.S. government. It stresses the courage of a black man, Rosco Jones, and a white woman, Grace Marsh, who dared to challenge the established order in Alabama within the early 1940s. These two Jehovah’s Witnesses helped to put a foundation for testing the constitutionality of state and local laws, setting up precedents that the Civil Rights movement, the feminist movement, and identical forces could follow. Newton has prepared a finely woven tale of oral, legal, and social history that opens a window at the world of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Alabama.

            However the book is more than a legal study; it is usually a dramatic history of two powerful personalities whose total commitment to their faith enabled them to hold the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ battle from rural Alabama to the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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