Jessica Ahlquist

Jessica Ahlquist in 2012
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Jessica Ahlquist (1995–) from Cranston, Rhode Island, is known for successfully challenging a prayer posted in her high school's auditorium during 2012. Due to her, her father, and the ACLU suing Cranston, the school had to remove the banner, and the school and city paid the ACLU $150,000 in legal fees.[1]

For her efforts, Ahlquist, who was sixteen at the time, was and is the victim of all kinds of harassment from a variety of community leaders, including being dubbed "Evil Little Thing" by Rhode Island State Representative Peter Palumbo, who the police arrested in 2017 for embezzlement.[2]

Awards

  • American Humanist Association Humanist Pioneer Award — 2012
  • Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award — 2013[3]

References

  1. ↑ Cranston agrees to pay ACLU $150,000 in legal fees, ending prayer-banner fight Providence Journal, March 6, 2012 (from Wayback Machine)
  2. ↑ Former RI State Rep who called Teen Atheist an Evil Little Thing Arrested for Embezzlement
  3. ↑ "Ahlquist Receives First Amendment Award"
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