“Newton’s work contributes to legal history, feminist history, religious history, and the history of the struggle of African Americans for civil rights. She rescues some people from obscurity and makes the point that even ‘little people’ can make a difference in our country, a point that needs to be made repeatedly. A good read.”
—Ronald B. Flowers, Texas Christian University
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“Newton has an interesting story to tell, and she tells it very well. She is particularly skillful at bringing alive the principal characters in the story. She does an excellent job of tracing the development of Jones v. Opelika and Marsh v. Alabama and putting those cases in context by relating them to the outlook and operations of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, to the economic and social situation in Alabama during the late 1930s and early 1940s, and to the evolution of the constitutional law of freedom of speech and freedom of religion.”
—Michal R. Belknap, California Western School of Law
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