<span>Virginia Durr joined the Woman’s National Democratic Club. She also became one of the founding members of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare in 1938 which is working to improve living in the South and to reduce segregation. She and her husband became involved in the succeeding boycott, Montgomery Improvement Association organized by Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3) is one and another is the Fall of Vicksburg (July 4)
I’d say A. Long and Roosevelt did not like each other, and the SOWP was “a threat” to Roosevelt’s promises in the New Deal reforms.
The Scopes Trial was important because it talked about the classic ethical issue of should we teach creationism in schools. John Scopes was a science teacher in Tennessee. At the time, teaching evolution in school was against the law, but Scopes taught evolution regardless of the law. He was put on trial, where each side was represented by a famous attorney, against Scopes was William Jennings Bryan, and representing Scopes was Clarence Darrow. Scopes was found guilty and fined $100, but this verdict was later withdrawn.
