As part of Women's History Month, UNI Free Thinkers and Inquirers (UNIFI) will host a film screening and discussion of the Lord is not on trial here today on March 4 at 12pm and March 6 at 7pm in the Center for Multicultural Education (CME) Room 109A.
The film is Peabody Award-winning documentary that tells the compelling personal story of Vashti McCollum, and her efforts to protect her ten-year old son led to one of the most important and landmark First Amendment cases in U.S. Supreme Court history - the case that established the separation of church and state in public schools. The case is little-known by the contemporary American public, yet the McCollum decision continues to have important ramifications for current conflicts over the role of religion in public institutions - from displays of the Ten Commandments in government buildings to student-led prayers at public school graduation ceremonies.
This event is free and open to the public.
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