The Scopes Trial and Southern Fundamentalism in Black and White: Race, Region, and Religion

From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: February 1, 2004| Author: Moran, Jeffrey P | Copyright information

THE ANTI-EVOLUTION MOVEMENT OF THE 1920s DEMONSTRATED THAT SOME aspects of Protestant fundamentalism flourished with particular vigor in the American South. Although fundamentalism, like the anti-evolution movement itself, originated in the North and Midwest, some southern states provided significant popular and legislative support, particularly in the area of scientific education, including Tennessee's infamous Butler Act proscribing the teaching of evolution, a 1928 referendum in Arkansas t...

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