Reading Race into the Scopes Trial: African American Elites, Science, and Fundamentalism.

Examines how secular African American leaders invoked the progressive power of science to attack white supremacy in the South and to challenge ministerial dominance in their own communities, with reference to the 1925 trial of John Scopes in Tennessee. Representation of race and region in the Scopes trial; Factors that motivated southern white antievolutionists; Arguments raised by black writers on the direct connection between racial prejudice and the antievolution movement.