From the forward by Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Here again [John G. Jackson] presents to a world unwilling to listen his thesis that civilization has African roots ? not Indian, not Chinese, but African; that the original race of humankind was Black; and that magnificent cultures preceded the European. He again demands a hearing for the facts which, slowly now accumulating, support his thesis. What is more, he pinpoints the bias of the white Christian culture which would hold in contempt any but its own manufactured greatness and exclusivity.

About the Author

JOHN G. JACKSON was an educator, lecturer, author, and man of principle. He was born on April 1, 1907, into a family of Methodists. In old age, he averred he had been an Atheist since he became old enough to think. The family minister once asked him when he was small, "Who made you?" After some thought he replied from his own realization, "I don't know."

He lived for nearly fifty years in New York City, lecturing at the "Ingersoll Forum" of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism (1930-1955). During a parallel period he wrote articles for the Truth Seeker magazine. From 1932 to 1972 he was a writer and associate of the Rationalist Press Association in London, England. A pioneer in the field of African and Afro-American studies, he taught such courses from 1971 to 1980 at Rutgers University, New York University, and in Illinois.

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ISBN-13:?9780910309905
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count: 331

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An Atheist Epic tells the dramatic story of how fourteen-year-old William J. Muray III and his mother Madalyn Murray (later O'Hair) challenged the compulsory recitation of the Lord's Prayer and forced reading of the Christian Bible in the public schools of Baltimore.

It tells of the beatings young Bill received with the approval of school authorities, police, and courts, and of the attacks on the Murray home instigated and led by good Christians ??attacks that led quite directly to the fatal heart attack suffered by Mrs. Murray's father. It describes the Christian execution of little Garth's kitten and the sorry demise of the two 'Atheist dogs' that Bill and Garth had as companions after loss of the kitten. Virtually all the religious attacks upon the First Amendment-mandated separation of state and church that America has endured since 1963 have been in retaliation to 'Murray v. Curlett' -- the case that Madalyn successfully took all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to obtain the ruling that forced prayer and Bible reading were unconstitutional.

The improbable series of events that led to that decision are painted here in colorful detail.

About the Author

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, whom Life magazine dubbed "The Most Hated Woman in America," is best remembered for her 1963 landmark case Murray v. Curlett, in which the US Supreme Court ruled in her favor, outlawing forced prayer and Bible reading in the public schools of America. A fighter for reason and a defender of the 'Wall of Separation' between state and church right up until being violently murdered with her family in 1995, even today she continues to be America's best-known atheist.

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ISBN-13:?9780910309899
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?298

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Many feminists seek ways to reconcile religion, particularly Judeo-Christianity, with modern principles of civil rights for women. Madalyn O?Hair shows how self-defeating such attempts are. Probing the earliest writings of Judeo-Christianity, its history, and the Bible, she exposes this religion for what it is ? anti-woman to the core.

About the Author

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, whom Life magazine dubbed "The Most Hated Woman in America," is best remembered for her 1963 landmark case Murray v. Curlett, in which the US Supreme Court ruled in her favor, outlawing forced prayer and Bible reading in the public schools of America. A fighter for reason and a defender of the 'Wall of Separation' between state and church right up until being violently murdered with her family in 1995, even today she continues to be America's best-known atheist.

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ISBN-13:?9780910309745
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?42

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Gods are figments of human imagination. This fact is clearly and humorously explained in simple language a small child can easily understand. This is an illustrated children?s book.

About the Author

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, whom Life magazine dubbed "The Most Hated Woman in America," is best remembered for her 1963 landmark case Murray v. Curlett, in which the US Supreme Court ruled in her favor, outlawing forced prayer and Bible reading in the public schools of America. A fighter for reason and a defender of the 'Wall of Separation' between state and church right up until being violently murdered with her family in 1995, even today she continues to be America's best-known atheist.

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ISBN-13:?9780911826104
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?28

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Madalyn Murray O?Hair explores the deism of the Founding Fathers, analyzes the tax exemption given to churches, reports on atheist Margaret Sanger, and examines the dangers of exposing children to religion ? and lots more.

About the Author

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, whom Life magazine dubbed "The Most Hated Woman in America," is best remembered for her 1963 landmark case Murray v. Curlett, in which the US Supreme Court ruled in her favor, outlawing forced prayer and Bible reading in the public schools of America. A fighter for reason and a defender of the 'Wall of Separation' between state and church right up until being violently murdered with her family in 1995, even today she continues to be America's best-known atheist.

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ISBN-13:?9780910309271
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?322

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The legal rights of atheists during centuries of oppression in the Western world is the focus of this set of broadcasts. Also covered are government giveaways to religion.

About the Author

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, whom Life magazine dubbed "The Most Hated Woman in America," is best remembered for her 1963 landmark case Murray v. Curlett, in which the US Supreme Court ruled in her favor, outlawing forced prayer and Bible reading in the public schools of America. A fighter for reason and a defender of the 'Wall of Separation' between state and church right up until being violently murdered with her family in 1995, even today she continues to be America's best-known atheist.

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ISBN-13:?9780910309578
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?370

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The plight of being an atheist in a theist society is examined in this reprint of a 1990 speech aired on C-SPAN.

About the Author

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, whom Life magazine dubbed "The Most Hated Woman in America," is best remembered for her 1963 landmark case Murray v. Curlett, in which the US Supreme Court ruled in her favor, outlawing forced prayer and Bible reading in the public schools of America. A fighter for reason and a defender of the 'Wall of Separation' between state and church right up until being violently murdered with her family in 1995, even today she continues to be America's best-known atheist.

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ISBN-13:?9780910309660
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?24

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What is it like to be an Atheist in a Christian culture? In Atheists: Their Dilemma, a speech given before the 1993 Convention of American Atheists, Madalyn O?Hair addresses the problem of the terrible loneliness of the atheist position in this day and age. Drawing on the history of the suppression of atheist thought, she outlines the special challenges which atheists face in all aspects of life: love, relationships, child-rearing, careers, even death. But the closet atheist should seek no sympathy here, for she finds the pervasive discrimination against atheism to be the very reason for championing it.

Dr. O?Hair?s speech, in its entirety, was broadcast on C-SPAN. Reproduced in this booklet is her prepared text.

About the Author

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, whom Life magazine dubbed "The Most Hated Woman in America," is best remembered for her 1963 landmark case Murray v. Curlett, in which the US Supreme Court ruled in her favor, outlawing forced prayer and Bible reading in the public schools of America. A fighter for reason and a defender of the 'Wall of Separation' between state and church right up until being violently murdered with her family in 1995, even today she continues to be America's best-known atheist.

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ISBN-13:?9780910309738
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?11

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From the introduction by Jon Murray

?in [erecting a ?wall of separation between church and state?] our Founding Fathers contracted a healthy disdain for religion which they voiced loudly and clearly in their writings and public pronouncements. In the ensuing two hundred plus years, Christianity, to further its own ends, has made their words so ambiguous as to encompass Christianity instead of deism and Nature.

This Booklet is intended to help dispel these myths and set the record straight. Ours is the first nation in history to realize the unique importance of the operative principle of separation of state and church. This is the founding premise of which all Americans can be proud.

About the Author

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, whom Life magazine dubbed "The Most Hated Woman in America," is best remembered for her 1963 landmark case Murray v. Curlett, in which the US Supreme Court ruled in her favor, outlawing forced prayer and Bible reading in the public schools of America. A fighter for reason and a defender of the 'Wall of Separation' between state and church right up until being violently murdered with her family in 1995, even today she continues to be America's best-known atheist.

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ISBN-13:?9780910309417
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?70

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Carnegie, Freud, Ibsen, Pavlov, Twain, Jane Addams, Florence Nightingale ? they and many others revered for their contributions to our world rejected the religion of their day and embraced deism, freethinking, or atheism. The list of nonbelievers includes princesses and queens. Learn about them in The Atheist World by Madalyn Murray O?Hair.

About the Author

Madalyn Murray O'Hair, whom Life magazine dubbed "The Most Hated Woman in America," is best remembered for her 1963 landmark case Murray v. Curlett, in which the US Supreme Court ruled in her favor, outlawing forced prayer and Bible reading in the public schools of America. A fighter for reason and a defender of the 'Wall of Separation' between state and church right up until being violently murdered with her family in 1995, even today she continues to be America's best-known atheist.

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ISBN-13:?9780910309691
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?358

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