Topic: Clarence Darrow

'Clarence Darrow,' by John A. Farrell

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People of faith will always have a hard time understanding why a fellow human being would choose to be either Atheist or Agnostic. That's OK. But...
Clarence Darrow, best known as one of America's greatest trial lawyers, was also an author, public intellectual, leading civil libertarian, and outspoken agnostic. In Chicago, Darrow quickly became active in the Democratic Party and progressive circles. After holding ?respectable? jobs as ...

The Monkey Trial

In 1925, the state of Tennessee passed a law, the Butler Act, banning the teaching of any theory that was not in accordance with the divine theory of creation as presented in the Bible. This group championed evolutionism by Darwin and condemned ...
A highly controversial topic in The United States is the issue of isolating any idea of a dominant religion from the public. This restriction tried to bring the notion that there isn't a domination of any religion in The United States ...

The legacy of John Scopes

John Scopes was a high school biology teacher in Tennessee who disobeyed a law against teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Clarence Darrow, who I believe was the Johnny Cochran of the early 20th Century, (Or Cochran was the Darrow of the ...
Why We Must Study History ? A HistoryTeacher Explains His Reasoning Through a case study on the Scopes Monkey Trialin 1925 ? by Michael M. Nakade ??????(AnImaginary Scene: His name is William Jennings Bryan. Mr. Nakade, you?re connecting thepeople of the past with ...

What Is the Scopes Trial?

The Scopes trial, often called the “Scopes Monkey Trial,” occurred in 1925 when the state of Tennessee prosecuted John Thomas Scopes for violating the Butler Act, which prohibited educators in public schools from teaching human evolution. The purpose of the Scopes trial ...

What was the Scopes Monkey Trial?

The Scopes Trial of 1925, also called the Scopes Monkey Trial, was a challenge to the constitutionality of laws dictating that evolutionary theory could not be taught in schools. Others agreed, and the men recruited John Scopes to be the test case ...

A Witness at the Scopes Trial

"This is Clarence Darrow," said the voice at the other end of the wire, "I suppose you have been reading the papers, so you know Bryan and his outfit are prosecuting that young fellow Scopes. " The Fundamentalists, under the leadership of William ...