1. Ten Days that Unexpectedly Changed America
... first, but John Scopes, a teacher at a local school in Dayton, eventually agreed. Scopes case was not even that he was teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, but that he was merely reading it out of a textbook. Once Scopes agreed, William Jennings Bryan volunteered to head the prosecution. Bryan strongly opposed the study of Darwin's theory, and believed that the tax paying parents ... radio station, and for the first time, whites began to choose the black versions of songs. He "shattered musical barriers and helped begin a national music craze" (Gillon, 207). Summer of 1953, Elvis Pres...
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