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O'Hair, Madalyn Murray (1919– )| US social activist. O'Hair had gradually become an atheist, having read the Bible at age 13. When her son Bill objected to school prayers, she took the case to the Supreme Court. In a landmark decision outlawing prayers in public schools, she won, in her words, the ‘unalienable right to freedom from religion as well as freedom of religion’ (1963). |
| She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was a cryptographer and second lieutenant during World War II. She and her family (she married twice) were persecuted by their neighbours while the case was being tried. |
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