Clarence Darrow

(noun)

Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857–March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, who headed the short-lived and highly critical National Recovery Review Board.

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Examples of Clarence Darrow in the following topics:

  • The Scopes Trial

    • Prominent attorney Clarence Darrow spoke in defense of Scopes by presenting the Modernist argument in favor of the Theory of Evolution.
    • Defense attorney Clarence Darrow, left, and prosecutor William Jennings Bryan argued the Scopes Trial in 1925, making opposing arguments regarding the teaching of evolution.

  • The Social Problem

    • In Chicago, noted attorney Clarence Darrow made vocal arguments that poverty and not biology created crime.

  • Women's Rights after Suffrage

    • Prominent civil rights attorney Clarence Darrow offered to defend Sanger free of charge.

  • The Coal Strike of 1902

    • Darrow, for his part, summed up the pages of testimony of mistreatment he had obtained in the soaring rhetoric for which he was famous for saying: "we are working for democracy, for humanity, for the future, for the day will come too late for us to see it or know it or receive its benefits, but which will come, and will remember our struggles, our triumphs, our defeats, and the words which we spake. "

  • Ballinger and Pinchot

    • Glavis claimed that Ballinger, first as Commissioner of the General Land Office, and then as Secretary of the Interior, had interfered with investigations of coal claim purchases made by Clarence Cunningham of Idaho.