Michael R. H. Swanson
Office: CAS 111
Hours: 9:00-10:00 M, T, Th, F
or by appointment
Phone: 401 254 3230
For Tuesday, April 17,
We'll spend a portion of the class discussing Driving Miss Daisy
Then we'll proceed to look at the developing Southern Myth called "The Lost Cause"
READ:, in Major Problems,
Chapter 7: Southern Religion and the Lost Cause, pp. 187-213
(Skip, for now, "Redeeming the South" by Paul Harvey )
Read Document 5 and the essay by Elizabeth Turner together.
WEB DOCUMENTS
The current romantic view of Southern Life and Culture is often called "neo-confederacy." It has been challenged by those who see this as a thinly veiled attempt to turn back the Civil Rights Movement.
PUBLIC ACTS
OF THE
STATE OF TENNESSEE
PASSED BY THE
SIXTY - FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1925
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CHAPTER NO. 27
House Bill No. 185
(By Mr. Butler)
AN ACT prohibiting the teaching of the Evolution Theory in all the Universities, Normals and all other public schools of Tennessee, which are supported in whole or
in part by the public school funds of the State, and to provide penalties for the violations thereof.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That it shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the Universities, Normals and all
other public schools of the State which are supported in whole or in part by the public school funds of the State, to teach any theory that denies the story of the
Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.
Section 2. Be it further enacted, That any teacher found guilty of the violation of this Act, Shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be fined not
less than One Hundred $ (100.00) Dollars nor more than Five Hundred ($ 500.00) Dollars for each offense.
Section 3. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.
Passed March 13, 1925
W. F. Barry,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
L. D. Hill,
Speaker of the Senate
Approved March 21, 1925.
Austin Peay,
Governor.
Two opposing views of William Jennings Bryan who helped to prosecute the Scopes Trial. Both appeared in northern newspapers, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, (left) and the Chicago Tribune (right)
A third view of evolution might be the "Monkey's View, as imagined in the Chicago Tribune
The Scopes Trial had much of the circus atmosphere about it, and helped to cement an image of southerners as backward and ignorant.