Record #:

20877

Author(s):

Linder, Suzanne Cameron

Abstract:

This article examines the efforts made by Wake Forest College President and biologist William Louis Poteat to maintain his position in the Baptist denomination and to lead the Southern liberals in the controversy that swept the nation as a result of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 40 Issue 2, April 1963, p135-157, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Evolution--Study and teaching--Laws and legislation; Poteat, William Louis, 1856-1938