The Anti-Evolution League of America was a biblical creationist organization created in 1924 a year after

William Bell Riley William Bell Riley (March 22, 1861 in Greene County, Indiana, USA – December 5, 1947 in Golden Valley, Minnesota) was an American Baptist evangelical Christian pastor. Biography In 1878, at the age of 17, Riley publicly professed faith in Chr ...

founded the Anti-Evolution League of Minnesota. The first president was the Kentucky preacher Dr. J. W. Porter and

T. T. Martin Thomas Theodore Martin (born 1862 in Smith County, Mississippi, died May 23, 1939), was a Christian evangelist who became one of the most important figures of the anti-evolution movement in the 1920s. When the Anti-Evolution League of Minnesota f ...

of Mississippi was

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and editor of the organization's official organ, ''The Conflict''. The organization was behind anti-evolution legislation in Kentucky, where its efforts were supported by William Jennings Bryan.Powell, William. ''North Carolina Through Four Centuries.'' University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Following Bryan's death after the Scopes Trial, his son, William Jennings Bryan, Jr., briefly accepted the presidency of the league.

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