Alton T. Lemon, Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 84 subjects also taught in the public schools.

He had had Alzheimer’s disease, said Korinna Shaw, his daughter-in-law. </P>Mr. Lemon’s lawsuit challenged a 1968 Pennsylvania law that reimbursed religious schools for some expenses, including teachers’ salaries and textbooks, so long as they related to instruction on secular subjects also taught in the public schools. </P>Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, writing for the court in Lemon v. Kurtzman, said the law violated the First Amendment’s prohibition of government

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