Commentary
Inside the First Amendment
By Gene Policinski
First Amendment Center vice president/executive director
As we mark the 50th anniversary this month of a hallmark image of the civil rights era — the earliest lunch-counter sit-ins — it’s worth noting how all five freedoms in the First Amendment nurtured and empowered a movement that transformed our society.
While civil disobedience and nonviolent action were the tools of protest, religious liberty and free expression were the…
