Vashti McCollum, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vashti McCollum

American activist

Date of Birth: 06-Nov-1912

Place of Birth: Lyons, New York, United States

Date of Death: 20-Aug-2006

Profession: activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Vashti Cromwell McCollum (November 6, 1912 – August 20, 2006) was the plaintiff in the landmark 1948 Supreme Court case McCollum v.
Board of Education, which struck down religious education in public schools.
The defendant in the case was the public school district of Champaign, Illinois; instructors chosen by three religious faiths had taught religion classes within the district's schools. McCollum wrote a book on the case, One Woman's Fight (1953), became a world traveler and served two terms as president of the American Humanist Association from 1962–1965.
She was also a signer of the Humanist Manifesto II in October 1973 and the Humanist Manifesto III in 2003.In 1948 McCollum told The New York Times "As long as the public school is used to recruit the child or to segregate the children according to religion or to use the truancy power of the public schools to make them go to religions classes, I'm against it".