Clarence Darrow

Liberties Union to challenge the Butler Law, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in schools. Scopes defied the law and was brought into court, where he was defended by Clarence Darrow. The prosecution side of the trial was fulfilled by Fundamentalist Christian, William Jennings Bryan. After much argument between Darrow and Bryan, Scopes was eventually found guilty and fined $100. The disagreement over traditional Christian beliefs and newly developing ideas of evolution sparked much…

not literally a part of the Anti-Saloon League, it is at least so close an ally as to be almost indistinguishable from it in many parts of the country.” The Evening Sun wasn’t the only paper to notice the resemblance. Famed civil rights lawyer Clarence Darrow more directly connected the two remarking, “The father and mother of the Ku Klux is the Anti-Saloon League. I would not say every Anti-Saloon Leaguer is a Ku Kluxer, but every Ku Kluxer is an Anti-Saloon Leaguer.” The similarities the ASL…

The Trials of Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird and “The Scottsboro Boys” both deal with discrimination in the 1930’s where discrimination was formidable and a way of life. “The Scottsboro Boys” were nine black youths. The youths were accused of raping two white women Victoria Price and Ruby Bates who traveled with a few white companions. Despite the fact that there was little evidence, the boys were still convicted of the crimes. That is a very close similarity to the fictional trial of Tom…

In what initially began as a case of whites versus blacks, the Scottsboro trial soon escalated into a trial of capitalists versus communists and a repeat of the common battles between Jews and Gentiles and North battling South. The Scottsboro boys morphed into pawns for battles where the outcome had little to do with them. Organizations fought over the fame of defending the unjustly accused nine Scottsboro boys. Through much perseverance, the American Communist Party received complete compliance…

Having students interact with the text that he or she reads is pivotal. Educators must inform his or her students that while he or she reads, it is important for students to make connections: Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, and Text-to-World—such connections can be made my completing a transactional journal assignment. A transactional journal derived from Louise Rosenblatt’s idea: “Who explained reading as a transactional process that occurs between the text and the reader” (“Transactional Reading…

Clarence Darrow once stated that “there is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.” As it is, crime is inevitable for a living person in the long run. Suppose, one drove into the red light at the traffic intersection or a student lit cigarette inside the school zone, both are accountable for crimes with the consequences. Crime is a crime for the action a person has committed, and the only difference is consequences depending on how big the crimes are. During the…

Chicago of the 1890’s The Windy City, the White City, City by the Lake and even the Heart of America − Chicago has been known under different names underpinning its special role in the history of the United States. At the time, Paul Lindau, an author and publisher, described it as “a gigantic peepshow of utter horror, but extraordinarily to the point.” In what follows I would try to depict what Chicago was like at the end of the nineteenth century, it was a time known as “the gilded age” − an…

would be permanent. b. would soon be overturned. c. could never be enforced in the South. d. would be a total failure. e. was unworkable in the cities. 46. The most spectacular example of lawlessness in the 1920s was a. New York City. b. New Orleans. c. Brooklyn. d. Chicago. e. Las…

Strite invented the pop-up toaster. In 1912, Clarence Crane invented the Lifesaver candy. He invented it because he wanted a candy that wouldn’t melt in the warm temperatures. In 1913, Gideon Sundback and Whitecomb Judson invented the zipper. They were inspired by a man named Elias Howe who invented…