2002 November 2

“Oh My G*D!” – Godless Americans March on Washington

 

An estimated 2,000 people assembled on the National Mall on this day in the first Godless March on Washington.

Participants included atheists, agnostics, humanists, and free-thinkers. Twenty people spoke at the four-hour event, which attracted some protesters. Marchers carried signs and T-shirts reading “What Our Schools Need is a Moment of Science,” and “Atheism is Myth-Understood.”

The day after the march, leaders organized the Secular Coalition for America (November 3, 2002).

Go to the Godless American web site: http://godlessamerican.org/

Read: Richard P. Cimino, Atheist Awakening: Secular Activism and Community in America (2014)

Read about the history of conflict over religion in American history: Steven Waldman, Sacred Liberty: America’s Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom (2019)

And: Melanie E. Brewster, Atheists in America (2014)

Visit the Freedom from Religion Foundation web site

 

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