{"title":"A Crusader and an Advocate: The Black Press, the Scopes Trial, and Educational Progress","authors":"Shantá R. Robinson","doi":"10.7709/JNEGROEDUCATION.87.1.0005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Scopes Trial was one of the most controversial, widely reported, and well-researched court cases of the twentieth century. However, historians and other researchers have largely ignored the African American community’s reaction and response to the trial, leaving out valuable perspectives on this historic event. In this article, the author takes up the question: To what extent did African Americans view the Scopes Trial as an educational issue? The viewpoints of a diverse group of African Americans who participated in the evolution debate are described and analyzed, focusing specifically on newspaper and periodical columnists. In addition, the author examines how African American commentators skillfully connected questions of science and religion to larger goals of educational and racial equality.","PeriodicalId":39914,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Negro Education","volume":"38 1","pages":"21 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Journal of Negro Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7709/JNEGROEDUCATION.87.1.0005","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:The Scopes Trial was one of the most controversial, widely reported, and well-researched court cases of the twentieth century. However, historians and other researchers have largely ignored the African American community’s reaction and response to the trial, leaving out valuable perspectives on this historic event. In this article, the author takes up the question: To what extent did African Americans view the Scopes Trial as an educational issue? The viewpoints of a diverse group of African Americans who participated in the evolution debate are described and analyzed, focusing specifically on newspaper and periodical columnists. In addition, the author examines how African American commentators skillfully connected questions of science and religion to larger goals of educational and racial equality.
期刊介绍：
The Journal of Negro Education (JNE), a refereed scholarly periodical, was founded at Howard University in 1932 to fill the need for a scholarly journal that would identify and define the problems that characterized the education of Black people in the United States and elsewhere, provide a forum for analysis and solutions, and serve as a vehicle for sharing statistics and research on a national basis. JNE sustains a commitment to a threefold mission: first, to stimulate the collection and facilitate the dissemination of facts about the education of Black people; second, to present discussions involving critical appraisals of the proposals and practices relating to the education of Black people.
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