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"The Amish Incident: Wisconsin vs Yoder" explores the battle over education and parental rights that emerged from a small Amish community near New Glarus, Wisconsin. The 1968 conflict began when Amish parents removed their children from public schools over a state law compelling education beyond the 8th grade. Three Amish fathers were convicted and fined for truancy violations. As a rule, the Amish do not “go to law” to resolve legal conflicts, but with help offered by an outside legal team, the subsequent trial and appeals culminated in a dramatic 1972 U.S. Supreme Court decision that defined how Wisconsin and other states facilitate education for Amish children.  "The Amish Incident: Wisconsin vs Yoder" follows the award-winning "The Amish Incident: Rural Conflict and Compromise" (part one in the two-part series), and blends newly discovered historic photographs and archival materials with on-camera interviews with Shawn Francis Peters, PhD, ("The Yoder Case: Religious Freedom, Education, and Parental Rights"), nationally-recognized Amish historian Mark DeWalt, PhD (Amish Education in the Unites States and Canada), and local historian Kim D. Tschudy ("New Glarus: Images of America"), to tell a fascinating and important true story of a monumental courtroom clash over education and religious freedom.

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The Amish Incident: Wisconsin vs Yoder