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Creationism -- Study and teaching -- Law and legislation -- Arkansas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Creation Science Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 701
Scope and Content Note

Papers created by plaintiffs' attorneys during the Arkansas Civil Liberties Union's successful challenge of that state's creation science law (Act 501) of 1981. The material consists of legal documents, correspondence, notes, and research files.

Dates: 1981

Matthew McNair Interviews

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2328
Scope and Content Note The collection consists of four audiocassette tapes containing interviews that Matthew McNair conducted as part of research for his 2008 master’s thesis, “Another brick in the wall: the rhetoric of creationism, science, and education, and the fate of the establishment clause in the American classroom," which explores American policy and legislation (such as Arkansas' Act 590 in 1981) regarding the teaching of creationism in public schools, as well as challenges to those laws, such as...
Dates: circa 2006-2007

Anne Farris Rosen Collection of George Fisher Cartoons

 Collection
Identifier: MC 2608
Content Description

12 George Fisher cartoons related to issues in Arkansas regarding the teaching of creation science and evolution, including Act 490 and the McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education court case.

Dates: circa 1981-1982