Scopes trial or kkk?

Question: Scopes trial or kkk!?

which topic would make a better report on culture clashes in the 1920s!?
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I would argue for the KKK!. The KKK had mostly disapeared by the 1920s and then in 1915 a movie called 'The Birth of a Nation' became the first truly international blockbuster with racist President Woodrow Wilson calling it 'history written with lightening,' especially scenes of the KKK riding heroically to save a white woman from being ravished by hordes of black people!. Suddenly the KKK was cool and NOT only in the South but in places such as Idaho and Oregon and Iowa and even Conneticutt which likes to think of itself as Liberal!. The KKK became one of many 'service' organizations popular during the 1920s!. Heck the KK even gathered food & firewood for impoverished Blacks and sent out press releases showing how nice they were (as long as the 'darkies' kept their place in the scheme of things)!.
What is truly hilarious about the rise of the KKK in the 1920s was that the KKK fell from grace not because of race baiting and hatred, oh no, that did not bother a majority of Americans, what brought down the KKK were tabloid news stories about adultry in the ranks of the executives and financial skulldruggery (KKK members getting cheated for the price of their wardrobe, stuff like that)!.!.!.
The KKK is far mnore interesting and much less reported and their is some good info on the net!.!.
http://www!.spartacus!.schoolnet!.co!.uk/USA!.!.!.
"""The Ku Klux Klan was reformed in 1915 by William J!. Simmons, a preacher influenced by Thomas Dixon's book, The Ku Klux Klan (1905) and the film of the book, Birth of a Nation, directed by D!.W!. Griffith!.

The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) became the main opponent of the Ku Klux Klan!. To show that the members of the organization would not be intimidated, it held its 1920 annual conference in Atlanta, considered at the time to be one of the most active Ku Klux Klan areas in America!.

After the First World War the Ku Klux Klan also became extremely hostile to Jews, Roman Catholics, socialists, communists and anybody they identified as foreigners!.

In November 1922 Hiram W!. Evans became the Klan's Imperial Wizard!. Under his leadership the organization grew rapidly and in the 1920s Klansmen were elected to positions of political power!. This included state officials in Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Oregon and Maine!. By 1925 membership reached 4,000,000!. Even on the rare occasions they were arrested for serious crimes, Klansmen were unlikely to be convicted by local Southern juries!.

After the conviction of the Klan leader, David C!. Stephenson, for second-degree murder, and evidence of corruption by other members such as the governor of Indiana and the mayor of Indianapolis, membership fell to around 30,000!. This trend continued during the Great Depression and the Second World War and in 1944 the organization!. was disbanded!.

In the 1950s the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement resulted in a revival in Ku Klux Klan organizations!. The most of important of these was the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan led by Robert Shelton!. In the Deep South considerable pressure was put on blacks by klansmen not to vote!. An example of this was the state of Mississippi!. By 1960, 42% of the population were black but only 2% were registered to vote!. Lynching was still employed as a method of terrorizing the local black population!.""

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I'll take the other side of the coin and say the Scopes Monkey Trial!. Greatest courtroom battle to date at that time between 2 of the greatest minds in the country who were actually friends!. William Jennings Bryan for the Prosecution and Clarence Darrow for the defense!.

Separation of church and state!. Religion should not be taught in parochial schools!. But was it so!?Www@QuestionHome@Com