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Distorting History in Behalf of a Creationist Myth: William Jennings Bryan and Racism

Sep 9, 2025 | Anti-Defamation League, Anti-Racism, Booker T. Washington, Censorship, Darwin-to-Hitler Trope, Democracy, Eugenics, Jerry Bergman, Reconstruction, Scopes Trial, Second Ku Klux Klan, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Teddy Roosevelt, The Bible and Creationism, Vietnam War, White Supremacy, William Jennings Bryan | 2 comments

by William Trollinger People gathering at the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marian, Indiana, 1939. Image via NPR. Jerry Bergman is at it again. And it’s as bad as ever. A prolific writer for the Answers Research Journal and similar creationist outlets,...