Student sparked battle over school prayer [video 87min]

In Ellery's Protest: How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle Over School Prayer, Stephen D. Solomon chronicles the story of Ellery Schempp who, as a high school student in 1956, objected to the mandatory prayer and reading of Bible verses in his school. The Schempp family sued the Abington School District in Pennsylvania and the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963. Solomon is joined in this discussion by Ellery Schempp, now a retired physicist, and Ted Mann, a Philadelphia attorney who drafted the Schempp v. Abington Township School District complaint that initiated the case in 1957. Solomon is an associate professor at New York University, where he teaches First Amendment law.