“Woman, atheist, anarchist: That’s me.”
Civil rights activist, flagrant Communist, and aggressive atheist, O’Hair successfully sued Baltimore public schools and ended mandatory school prayer nationwide in 1963, earning herself the sobriquet “The Most Hated Woman In America.” O’Hair also mounted campaigns against the Pledge of Allegiance, the motto “In god We Trust,” public nativity scenes, public scripture readings, and even tax exemptions for churches. She credited her atheism to her experience reading the Bible for the first time in 1932.
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