This week on Radio Civil Liberties, Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Foundation and The Nation, America’s oldest weekly magazine, have launched a special new series, This Brave Nation.
Focusing on the personal and the political struggles of progressive icons like Tom Hayden, Dolores Huerta, Carl Pope, Bonnie Raitt, and Pete Seeger talking to rising stars like Majora Carter, Van Jones, Naomi Klein, Ava Lowery, and the ACLU’s own Anthony Romero. They share ideas, lessons, and experiences so as to inform, enlighten, and inspire a new generation of Americans to commit to action rather than apathy. In our first segment we hear from ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero and activist Ava Lowery
This week marks 83 years since a jury in tiny Dayton, Tennessee convicted and fined $100 a teacher by the name of John T. Scopes, a man who had the courage and determination of spirit to challenge a state law forbidding the teaching of Darwin’s theory of evolution. The ACLU put out an offer in a Chattanooga newspaper to defend a teacher who was willing to challenge the state law prohibiting the teaching of "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals."
In our second segment this week, we hear from none other than the Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, Roger Nash Baldwin, who recorded his thoughts on the infamous "Scopes Trial" on the 30th Anniversay of the famed trial back in 1955.
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