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Armed with the Constitution: Jehovah's Witnesses in Alabama and the U.S Supreme Court, 1939-1946.
・ISBN 978-0-8173-1228-2 paper US$ 29.95
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| 著者・編者 | Newton, Merlin, |
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| 出版社 | (The University of Alabama Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2002 |
| ページ数 | 240 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A05-80165＞ |
解説
This fascinating history underscores the importance 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 status quo in Alabama in the early 1940s. These two Jehovah's Witnesses helped to lay a foundation for testing the constitutionality of state and local laws, establishing precedents that the Civil Rights movement, the feminist movement, and similar forces could follow. Newton has prepared a finely woven tale of oral, legal, and social history that opens a window on the world of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Alabama. But the book is more than a legal study; it is also a dramatic history of two powerful personalities whose total commitment to their faith enabled them to carry the Jehovah's Witnesses' battle from rural Alabama to the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court.