To learn more about those years and the decades that followed, we encourage you to read pages 425-520 of the book Jehovah’s Witnesses —Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom, which relate what the harvest work accomplished from 1919 to 1992.
The Watchtower of June 1 explained that no Witness of Jehovah could remain in good standing in the congregation while carrying on this death-dealing, defiling, and unloving practice.
5 In the late 1930’s, cities and states throughout the United States of America sought to force Jehovah’s Witnesses to obtain some form of legal permit or license in order to engage in their ministry.
RULING The High Court of Cassation and Justice (Supreme Court) finds that the Witnesses carry out their activities peacefully, that their literature is no danger to public order, and that they have the right to share their opinion.