Through American Atheists, O'Hair filed numerous other suits on issues of separation of church and state. Curlett, she achieved attention to the extent that in 1964 Life magazine referred to her as "the most hated woman in America".
After she founded the American Atheists and won Murray v. The Supreme Court had prohibited officially sponsored prayer in schools in Engel v. Schempp (1963), it was heard by the United States Supreme Court, which ruled that officially sanctioned mandatory Bible-reading in American public schools was unconstitutional. Consolidated with Abington School District v. Curlett lawsuit, which challenged the policy of mandatory prayers and Bible reading in Baltimore public schools, in which she named her first son William J. She created the first issues of American Atheist Magazine and identified as a " militant feminist". In 1963 she founded American Atheists and served as its president until 1986, after which her son Jon Garth Murray succeeded her. Madalyn Murray O'Hair ( née Mays Ap– September 29, 1995) was an American activist supporting atheism and separation of church and state.
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