Into the wilderness: Ronald Reagan, Bob Jones University, and the political education of the Christian Right.
Historian, The, June, 2005 by Haberman, Aaron
ON FRIDAY, 8 January 1982, officials from the United States Treasury Department announced that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) would no longer deny tax exemptions to private schools practicing racially discriminatory policies, arguing that Congress had not given the IRS this specific authority. That same day the Justice Department informed the Supreme Court--which was preparing to hear a case involving two fundamentalist Christian schools, Bob Jones University (BJU) of Greenville, South Carolina and Goldsboro Christian Schools of Goldsboro, North Carolina, suing the IRS to reinstate their tax-exempt status--that the case no longer needed to be tried because the new government policy rendered the issue moot. The announcements appeared to mark the end of a decade long...
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