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- Title
Monkeys, Bibles, and the Little Red Schoolhouse: Atlanta's School Battles in the Scopes Era.
- Authors
Laats, Adam
- Abstract
The article discusses the debates within the Atlanta, Georgia, board of education regarding the reading of the Bible in classrooms and the concept of evolution during the 1920s. The article states that the Georgia legislature mandated Bible reading in public schools in 1921. The article examines the debates in the context of the so-called Scopes monkey trial in Tennessee in 1925. It also examines the ideological positions and differences between the Protestant fundamentalists and liberal members on the Atlanta school board.
- Subjects
TENNESSEE; ATLANTA (Ga.); GEORGIA; SCHOOL boards; RELIGION in the public schools; BIOLOGICAL evolution education laws; SCOPES, John Thomas, 1900-1970; TENNESSEE evolution controversy, 1925; TENNESSEE state history; GEORGIA state history, 1865-; HISTORY
- Publication
Georgia Historical Quarterly, 2011, Vol 95, Issue 3, p335
- ISSN
0016-8297
- Publication type
Article