6) Harlem- So this is pretty interesting. In a time when most blacks could not own land or whites had at the very least made it very difficult to own land. Therefor the blacks could not even own/operate the clubs in their very own neighborhoods, the whites owned some of the most famous nightclubs in Harlem. This fact is intriguing all by itself. It is very similar to the south the white man benefiting off African American labor and culture. The whites were going into Harlem to have these crazy adventures on the other side of the tracks sort of speak. Meanwhile the club owners were mostly white. It seems so wrong that the blacks had come from the South to the North to have a better version of freedom. I am sure after surviving the South the North probably did seem better. Really it was the same story different setting. With that said after reading more and …show more content…
First and foremost, in my mind it proves that the court systems could be manipulated even back then. So, this was a staged case involving a substitute teacher that was allegedly teaching about the Darwin Theory. Tennessee had previously passed the Butler Act and per that he was in clear violation of the law. This case was the test case to prove the unconstitutionality of the Butler Case. The law stated that teachers could not teach evolution instead of the biblical ideas of man’s creation. The American Civil Liberties Union decided that this was against the constitution and decided to do a test case. This case would become known as the Scopes Trial. Scopes agreed to be the subject of the test trial. The case got much more interesting when Mr. Darrow called upon the opposing attorney to the stand. The trial got so big it was the first trial to be played out over the radio. After 9 days Scopes was found guilty. The case went to the Supreme Court where they decided that the Butler Act was constitutional. Scope did however get his case thrown out due to a