Miscellaneous Topics

Excerpt from an Economic Brief titled, "The Closed Shop and Union Security," submitted by the American Federation of Labor. The brief twice cites Clarence Darrow's article, "Why Men Fight for the Closed Shop."

Excerpt from a petition for certiorari in which Clarence Darrow is quoted for his criticism of conspiracy laws.

The 1880 Census from Ashtabula County, Ohio shows an entry for Clarence Darrow and his wife Jessie. Darrow's occupation is listed as "lawyer" and his wife's occupation is listed as "keeping house." Darrow's entry is eighth from the bottom.

Ammirus Darrow, Clarence Darrow's father, remarried in 1898. From the Clarence Darrow Papers.

Clarence Darrow is number 16 on this page from 1900 Census for Chicago.

"Letter from the Secretary of Labor, Transmitting in Response to a Senate Resolution of January 29, 1914, a Report in Regard to the Strike of Mine Workers in the Michigan Copper District which Began on July 23, 1913." Excerpt with references to Clarence Darrow's involvement in trying to end the strike.

Clarence Darrow is listed ninth in the left column. Page from the Blue Book of the State of Illinois.

Hearings held from January 28 through February 13, 1926 on H.R. 349 and H.R. 4498. Clarence Darrow's statement begins on page 30 of this pdf document which is page 57 of this hearing. There are several critical references made about Clarence Darrow by other speakers. For example, on page 59 of the pdf is a short discussion of how much Darrow was paid for his defense of Leopold and Loeb. Most of page 61 consists of criticism about Darrow's views and an extended discussion about Darrow begins on page 80.

FBI file on Clarence Darrow. http://foia.fbi.gov/darrow/darrow1.pdf

House of Representatives hearings on bills to suspend or abolish the death penalty held in March and May 1972. Several references are made to Clarence Darrow.

Presentation by Clarence Darrow's son Paul to the Special Committee of the House of Representatives appointed to investigate the Interstate Migration of Destitute Citizens in August 1940. From the Papers of Clarence Darrow.

This version of Whitehead's piece appears in The Little Blue Book No. 1464, E. Haldeman-Julius, ed.

Johann (John) Most (1846 - 1906) was one of the most notorious anarchists in the United States. Born in Germany, he moved to London in 1878 where he became an anarchist and began publishing Die Freiheit. He published an article in 1881 praising the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia for which he was arrested and sent to prison for 18 months. After getting out of prison in 1882 he emigrated to the United States and began living in Chicago. Most continued to publish Die Freiheit as well as other material and making speeches about anarchism while in the United States. His most notorious publication The Science of Revolutionary Warfare was published in 1885. In this work Most gave instructions for creating and using bombs. Most continued to publish Die Freiheit and books and pamphlets on anarchism until he died in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1906. While not directly involved in any cases Clarence Darrow worked on, Most influenced several people Darrow came in contact with and sometimes defended. For example in 1904 Darrow and Edgar Lee Masters tried to keep John Turner, an avowed anarchist, from being deported back to Great Britain. Part of the evidence against Turner was a note found in his pocket about a mass-meeting at which speeches would be given by Turner and John Most and several other speakers. Most also influenced several of the Haymarket anarchists.

"Read before the Chicago Historical Society December 5, 1905 On the Occasion of the Presentation to the Society of Governor Altgeld's Portrait the Gift of Joseph S. Martin of Chicago." From the Internet Archive.

"Ten Cent Pocket Serious" pamphlet containing the Trial of William Penn followed by Clarence Darrow's How Voltaire Fooled Priest & King. Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius.

Short interviews with prominent citizens including Clarence Darrow on the issue of tax cheating. Published in The Public.

Short reference to Darrow as candidate for Illinois legislature. Published in The Public.

Description of funeral services for John Peter Altgeld. Published in The Public.

Brief commentary about a speech Clarence Darrow gave about trade unionism to the Henry George Association in Chicago.

Article praising Clarence Darrow for voting against a bill that would appropriate $5,000 for the widow of his mentor and former Governor of Illinois John Peter Altgeld.

Poem inscribed to Clarence S. Darrow by Dr. John Byers Wilson. From Tomorrow magazine (1907).

Published in The Painter and Decorator by the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America.

Description of Clarence Darrow's controversial address to Cook County prisoners in 1902. From volume 25 of The Railway Conductor (1908).

Discussion of Edgar Lee Masters "The Spoon River Anthology" from Current Opinion (1915). The work made Masters' reputation and became one of the most widely read works of its time. Masters was Clarence Darrow's law partner for 8 years but they had a stormy relationship.

Page two contains a description of dinner presentation by Clarence Darrow given at the Los Angeles Single Tax Club. Published in The Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine.

Short article about George Burman Foster in The Biblical World. Foster was a well-known theologian and professor of philosophy of religion at the University of Chicago from 1905 until his death in 1918. Clarence Darrow and Foster were very good friends.

Memorials to George Burman Foster in The University Record (1919). Clarence Darrow and Foster were best friends.

Debate between James Schermerhorn and Clarence Darrow about prohibition. Published in the Dearborn Independent Magazine by Henry Ford. Schermerhorn was the founder of the Detroit Times.

Whitehead traveled with Darrow around the country to promote Darrow's debates on subjects ranging from prohibition to the question "Is Man a Machine?" and provides this fascinating account. Whitehead explains: "Mr. Darrow has been branded "The Big Minority Man" and the title fits him like an old slouch hat. In a debate he expects 80 percent of the audience to be against him, but he adds: "If the majority were with me I would think I was wrong.""(page 4).

Description of political speeches before a Republican crowd during the Presidential campaign. Story is in the center and is titled "Thurston Talks for McKinley." Published in The San Francisco Call.

Short reference to speech Clarence Darrow gave about Leo Tolstoy. From the Davis County Clipper.

Newspaper article about a speech Clarence Darrow gave criticizing pacifists and supporting United States military involvement in World War I. Published in The Richmond Palladium And Sun-Telegram, November 13, 1917.

Description of Clarence Darrow's pessimism and Darrow's short eulogy at the funeral of his friend George Burman Foster. Published in A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht, a newspaper column in the Chicago Daily News.

Clarence Darrow had to read McGuffey's Readers in grade school. Darrow recalled in his autobiography: "I know that I began at the primer and read over and over the McGuffey readers, up to the sixth, while at the district school. I have often wondered if there was such a man as Mr. McGuffey and what he looked like. To me his name suggested side-whiskers which, in Kinsman, meant distinction. I never could understand how he learned so much and how he could have been so good. I am sure that no set of books ever came from any press that was so packed with love and righteousness as were those readers. Their religious and ethical stories seem silly now, but at that time it never occurred to me that those tales were utterly impossible lies which average children should easily have seen through. McGuffey furnished us many choice and generally poetical instructions on conduct and morals. And the same sort were found in other books, also. . . . From what I see and hear of the present generation I should guess that Doctor McGuffey and his ilk lived in vain."

Judge Richards, a police judge in Ashtabula, gave me my first sane idea of crime and criminals. He gave me a book, Our Penal Machinery and Its Victims, by Judge John P. Altgeld, of Chicago, which was a revelation to me. This book and the author came to have a marked influence upon me and my future." - Clarence Darrow, The Story of My Life. From the Internet Archive.

Courtesy of the Special Collections Department, University of Iowa Libraries.

Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll (1833 - 1899) was a Civil War veteran, noted orator, political leader, and forceful defender of agnosticism. Ingersoll greatly influenced Clarence Darrow. Because of his agnosticism Ingersoll was referred to by some of his critics as "Injuresoul."

Fra Elbertus was a pen name of Clarence Darrow's friend Elbert Hubbard. Hubbard reportedly wrote the inspirational essay "A Message to Garcia" in about an hour, and it became a sensational hit. It has reportedly sold over 40 million copies and has been translated into 37 languages. The essay is used by corporations and the military as an inspirational training guide for accomplishing organizational missions. From the Internet Archive.

Advice on oratory skills by Clarence Darrow's mentor John Peter Altgeld. From the Internet Archive.

John Peter Altgeld was a mentor to Clarence Darrow. This was written just before Altgeld's death and contains an introduction by Clarence Darrow. From the Internet Archive.

Published in Bethink Yourselves!: A Letter on the Russian-Japanese War by Leo Tolstoy.

Edgar Lee Masters was a law partner of Clarence Darrow from 1903 until 1911. A noted writer and poet, this book contains thirteen political essays some of which were previously published in the Chicago Chronicle. The essays helped earn Masters a reputation as a "radical." From the Internet Archive.

Upton Sinclair was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and social activist. He had given Clarence Darrow a copy of his book The Jungle and later wrote a letter to Darrow dated September 23, 1905 asking if he had read it and asking Darrow's legal opinion about whether it amounted to libel. Sinclair originally intended the book to expose the harsh and unfair working conditions endured by poor immigrants. But the general public was more shocked by the descriptions of unsanitary and dangerous food processing practices. The book was so influential that it led to the passage on the same day of the federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 which in turn led to the establishment of the Food and Drug Administration. From the Internet Archive.

Clarence Darrow's agreement with the publisher Fox, Duffield & Co of New York.

Publication of two lectures before the Harvard Summer School of Theology in 1902 and 1903. George Burman Foster was Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Chicago. Foster was a very prominent theologian, but he was also controversial because of his liberal interpretation of the Bible. George Burman Foster was one Clarence Darrow's best friends.

From Socialism Inevitable: (Wilshire editorials) by Henry Gaylord Wilshire.

Short review of Clarence Darrow's book in The Bookman: A Review of Books and Life.

Cover, title page and first page from a Finnish translation of Clarence Darrow's book, An Eye for An Eye.

Excerpt from Our Land and Land Policy by Henry George in which George explains his single tax theory and how it would apply to land ownership. Clarence Darrow was an ardent supporter of George's single tax theory for many years.

Excerpt from Victor Berger's 1912 book Broadsides. Berger comments on a 1907 newspaper article about Clarence Darrow refusing to stand for the singing of the Star Spangled Banner at a hotel restaurant in Spokane, Washington.

Subtitled, "an Inquiry Into the Operation of the Single Tax System as Proposed by Henry George in Progress and Poverty, the Book from which All Single Tax Advocates Draw Their Inspiration, Revealing the True and Real Meaning of Single Tax, which is Land Communism." Author was Secretary of the Oregon Equal Taxation League. From the Internet Archive.

Excerpt discussing Clarence Darrow's stance against capital punishment. Donald Lowrie was convicted of burglary and sentenced to fifteen years in San Quentin State Prison. He served ten years and then wrote a book called My Life in Prison in which he argued for prison reform. He later wrote My Life Out of Prison. Lowrie was an influential prison reformer.

Clarence Darrow and Edgar Lee Masters formed a law partnership in 1903 that lasted until 1911 but it was a stormy relationship. Besides being a lawyer, Masters was also a writer and poet. In 1915, Masters published Spoon River Anthology, a collection of poem epitaphs for over two-hundred citizens of fictional Spoon River, Illinois who have died. The work was very popular and established Master as a gifted writer. "It is perhaps not too much to say that the book created a sensation in literary circles. No book of poetry since Longfellow's popular volumes has had so wide a circulation, and none since Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass has been more vigorously stimulating or shown more originally." Leonidas Warren Payne, History of American Literature. 356 (1919). From the Internet Archive.

Book about Edward F. Dunne. The book has several references to Clarence Darrow who was a friend of Dunne. From the Internet Archive.

In 1910, Clarence True Wilson was appointed General Secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals (MBTP). He served in this position for twenty-five years. During Prohibition, the MBTP was an official agency of the northern Methodist Episcopal Church. According to one source, from 1925 to 1935 Clarence Darrow and Wilson held forty-six debates. During the course of their debates and the time they spent together Darrow and Wilson became very good friends. Published by Temperance Society of the M.E. Church, 1916.

Vincent St. John was a radical labor leader and one of the most influential early founders of the I.W.W. St. John and about 99 other I.W.W. member including Big Bill Haywood were convicted of violating the Espionage Act in 1918 for interfering with the war effort. Clarence Darrow represented St. John on several appeals before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in 1918 and 1920.

Clarence True Wilson, one of the authors, became good friends with Clarence Darrow and the two often debated each other over Prohibition. Published under the authority of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Clarence True Wilson was the General Secretary of this board.

Collection of decisions interpreting various prohibition statutes.

Affirmative and negative opinions of The Closed Shop, a book compiled by Lamar T. Beman. Several references are made to Clarence Darrow's views.

Effort to include all cases arising under the Prohibition Act as of 1922.

Book review of Clarence Darrow's book in The Catholic World.

Inscription Clarence Darrow wrote to Abbie Scott Baker in a copy of his book, Crime: Its Cause and Treatment. Abbie Scott Baker (1871-1944) was a leading member of the Congressional Union for Women's Suffrage and the National Women's Party. In 1917 she was arrested, convicted and served a prison sentence for participating in a suffrage protest in Washington, DC. Baker played a leading role in the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.

Clarence Darrow and Victor Yarros published this book in 1927 to refute the book Prohibition at Its Worst written by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale University who was a leading prohibitionist. Fisher was an economist, health campaigner, and eugenicist. He was one of the most prominent and celebrated economists in America during the early part of the twentieth century.

Title page and dedication page of Arthur Garfield Hay's book, Let Freedom Ring, which he dedicated to Clarence Darrow, Oswald Garrison Villard and Roger N. Baldwin.

Elizabeth Dilling Stokes was a staunch anti-communist and anti-war activist. The purpose of the book was to expose what she considered communist front activity in the United States. Clarence Darrow and many of his friends and acquaintances are listed in the book. Darrow is mentioned numerous times and his short bio is on page 275 of the book which is page 274 of this pdf.

Short bio of Hugh Reid Belknap who defeated Clarence Darrow in their race for Congress in the historic 1896 election. The official vote was 22,075 votes for the Republican Belknap and 21,485 votes for the Democrat Darrow.

Warranty deed signed by Clarence Darrow's father and mother for a house in the "Connecticut Western Reserve" area in Ohio. Clarence Darrow Papers.

This document includes an extract of a letter written by the abolitionist Wendell Phillips (1811 - 1884), along with a handwritten letter from Rev. Parker Pillsbury (1809 - 1898). Pillsbury was an American minister, abolitionist and supporter of women's rights. Part of the Clarence Darrow papers.

Address given before the New York State Bar Association in Albany, N.Y. January 21, 1890. Ingersoll was an outspoken atheist whom Clarence Darrow admired.

Clarence Darrow participated in discussion of these three topics at the Sunset Club in Chicago.

Discussion at the Sunset Club. Participants included Clarence Darrow.

Clarence Darrow, Henry D. Lloyd and others participated in a discussion at the Sunset Club meeting about strikes and injunctions. The discussion was held at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Thursday October 25, 1894.

Doctor Denslow Lewis gave a controversial presentation before the American Medical Association (AMA) called "The Gynecologic Consideration of the Sexual Act." The AMA refused to publish the paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Denslow later asked Clarence Darrow for legal advice on whether a publisher would face obscenity charges for publishing it.

Includes the Address of Clarence S. Darrow given at Altgeld's funeral on March 14, 1902.

Who's Who in America was just four years old, having been founded in 1899.

Bio of Edward Everett Darrow (1846 - 1927) who was Clarence Darrow's oldest sibling. From the History of the Class of '70, Department of Literature, Science and the Arts published by the University of Michigan documenting the class of 1870.

Description of the 1904 Democratic Party Convention held in St. Louis. Contains a brief mention of a speech given by Clarence Darrow in which he supported the nomination of William Randolph Hearst for vice president (on page 5 of this pdf document). Published in The Pacific Monthly.

Discussion held at a meeting of the Physician's Club of Chicago. Published in the Illinois Medical Journal.

Published in The Open Court: Devoted to the Science of Religion, the Religion of Science, and the Extension of the Religious Parliament Idea.

Who's Who in America began in 1899.

Brief listing from the University of Michigan showing Ammirus Darrow, an unrelated Darrow, Clarence Darrow, Edward Darrow, another unrelated Darrow and Mary Darrow, along with the years each attended the University. Ammirus was Clarence Darrow's father, Edward was his oldest sibling and Mary was his older sister.

Brief account of humorous quip by Clarence Darrow as a young lawyer. Published in After Dinner Stories by Famous Men.

Clarence Darrow's essay "The Skeleton in the Closet" was first published in 1899 in his collection A Persian Pearl and Other Essays. This book review is from the Psychoanalytic Review published by the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis.

Short bio of Henry Marison Byllesby (1859 - 1924) who was one of the most prominent electrical engineers of his time. Byllesby worked for Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. He moved to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1891 to run an electrical company. He formed a power company in 1909 that later became Northern States Power in 1916. The company supplied power throughout Minnesota. He formed H.M. Byllesby & Co. a Chicago-based conglomerate that owned steamships, streetcars and utility companies across the United States. During World War I Byllesby was a prominent supporter of the Allies. Beginning in April 1917 he began working full-time as the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Chicago Branch of the National Security League. This was a public service organization founded in 1914 to lobby for increased and improved preparation for America's defense against enemies at home and abroad. Byllesby was primarily responsible for the inauguration of a patriotic speaking campaign which opened in Minneapolis in September, 1917 with Samuel Gompers and Clarence Darrow as principal speakers. In 1917 Byllesby accepted a commission as a major and served in the Signal Corps and was later promoted to lieutenant-colonel. He also served in London as the purchasing agent for the American Expeditionary Force. Clarence Darrow knew Byllesby and served with him on the Chicago Branch of the National Security League. Darrow also conferred with Byllesby about investments in gas utilities.

Statement by "citizens of Gentile birth and Christian faith" against Anti-Semitism. Signed by many prominent people including Clarence Darrow. Published in the American Jewish Year Book.

The following speakers will respond to toasts: DONALD RICHBERG, Darrow the Lawyer; SHIRLEY J. CASE, Darrow and Religion; WALTER WHITE, Darrow and the Negro; HARRY M. FISHER, Darrow the Advocate; ZONA GALE, Darrow and Literature; FAY-COOPER COLE, Darrow and Science; JOHN HAYNES HOLMES, Darrow the Humanitarian; TOASTMASTER: THOMAS V. SMITH.

Letter republished in the The Red Network: A Who's Who and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots by Elizabeth K. Dilling to expose radicals. Clarence Darrow is listed as a member of the National Committee and Arthur Garfield Hays is listed as Counsel. The caption states: "Facsimile of a letter typical of constant efforts of A.C.L.U. to influence legislation favored by radicals. Signed by John Haynes Holmes, acting Chairman while Harry F. Ward was in Russia. Note names of National Committee and Officers."

Letterhead shows Clarence Darrow is listed as a member of the Executive Committee of the Public Ownership League of America. The letter was republished in the The Red Network: A Who's Who and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots, by Elizabeth K. Dilling to expose radicals. Caption states: "Facsimile of significant letter sent out to "Members and Friends" by socialist Public Ownership League. Reveals close ties with Secretary Ickes. See Who's Who for signer of the letter, Carl D. Thompson, and other League leaders listed on letterhead.

Section from The Red Network: A Who's Who and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots by Elizabeth K. Dilling. The section is titled, "Who Is Who In Radicalism?" and includes a short bio of Clarence Darrow showing affiliations that earned him inclusion in the Red Network.

Short bio of Judge Holly published in The Red Network: A "Who's Who" and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots. Clarence Darrow and Judge Holly were very good friends.

Funeral book for Clarence Darrow's funeral service held at Bond Chapel, University of Chicago on March 15, 1938. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

Typewritten draft of Judge Holly's eulogy with penciled in style edits.

Affirmative: George Burman Foster. Negative: Clarence Darrow.

This speech was given by Darrow to the Biology Group, of which he was a founding member.

Little Blue Book containing four writings by Clarence Darrow: Realism in Literature and Art, Robert Burns, George Burman Foster (Memorial Address January 12, 1919), Some Paragraphs Addressed to Socialists.

Presentations by Clarence Darrow and John Peter Altgeld at the Sunset Club in Chicago. Also contains information about the Sunset Club. Published in Echoes of the Sunset Club.

Address delivered at the Central Music Hall, Chicago on November 23, 1895, the anniversary of the execution of the "Manchester Martyrs" (William O'Mera Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien) who were members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood hanged in Salford, England on November 23, 1867. They were executed for killing a policeman during a prison escape.

Clarence Darrow's first book. The table of contents is as follows: (1) A Persian Pearl-9; (2) Walt Whitman-43; (3) Robert Burns-77; (4) Realism in Literature and Art-107; (5) The Skeleton in the Closet-139.

Short story written by Clarence Darrow in 1899.

1902 address in which Darrow gives his views about the causes of crime that are so radical that "[s]ome of my good friends have insisted that while my theories are true, I should not have given them to the inmates of a jail." Printed in 1919.

Part of critical commentary called "Easy Lessons in Law" written by Clarence Darrow and published in Hearst's Chicago Evening American in 1902. Darrow's story involves Tony Salvador, an Italian immigrant, who finds work as on a railroad but who lost a leg after being run over by a train. Tony tries to win compensation in court but the judge ruled that he assumed the risk of working in a dangerous area. This typewritten draft is from the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

In December 1903 Darrow published this short fiction story in the magazine The Pilgrim. Louis is nine years old, poor and Jewish. He is missing one hand due to an accident when he was much younger. One day in the winter he stays out in the cold selling newspapers because he wants to earn enough money to buy a small Christmas present for his mother. This leads to frostbite and he has to have his only hand amputated. Darrow wrote it as a sad reality check on the traditional cheery Christmas tale. This typewritten draft is from the Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

Clarence Darrow's autobiographical novel.

Fictional story of a man sentenced to death for killing his wife.

Darrow offers advice about writing. Published in Tomorrow Magazine.

Speech about prohibition given at the Opera House in Youngstown Ohio Sunday, May 2, 1909. Among the things Darrow told the audience: "Now, I have practiced law a good many years, and have helped to pick out a good many juries. Anybody can try a case, but you must have a good jury. If I had to defend a criminal case I would never let a prohibitionist on the jury, not if I could help it. A lawyer who would let one of them on a jury, if he could avoid it would be guilty of malpractice."

Address by Clarence Darrow at a public meeting held in New Bedford, Mass., on December 4, 1909. The introduction to the address states that, "This city, with Worcester and others, changed from 'dry' to 'wet' by a large majority in the election held a fortnight later."

For: Clarence Darrow. Against: Arthur M. Lewis. Garrick Theatre, Chicago.

Clarence S. Darrow and Arthur M. Lewis.

Address at the Henry George Anniversary Dinner of the Single Tax Club, Chicago, September 19th, 1913.

Short article published in 1914 by the International Socialist Review in which Clarence Darrow explained his view that the destruction of private property caused by the war would benefit the working class. Darrow believed that the rebuilding that would be needed would help employ people and raise the wages of those who helped rebuild the destroyed property.

One page article about the Russian painter Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin. This is a reprint from Darrow's "Realism in Literature and Art". Published in The Metal Polisher, Buffer, and Plater journal by the Metal Polishers, Buffers, Platers & Helpers International Union.

Clarence Darrow's address demonstrates his social philosophy, views about the professional life of lawyers and about the American legal system. Given in Darrow's typical blunt style.

This excerpt includes a contribution "[w]ritten [e]xpressly for The Chrysalis by the Hon. Clarence Darrow, famous Western Lawyer and author, entitled "Punishment."

Short article in which Darrow argues against private property. Published in Everyman.

Affirmative: Professor George Burman Foster; Negative: Clarence S. Darrow.

Address by Clarence Darrow about World War I. Darrow forcefully explains why America was justified in entering the war. The address was given under the Auspices of the National Security League.

Lecture on World War I given by Clarence Darrow before the Chicago Society of Rationalism.

Lecture given in the Court Theater on February 3, 1918.

Birthday celebration held at the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago on Clarence Darrow's 61st birthday.

Affirmative: Professor John C. Kennedy. Negative: Clarence Darrow. Garrick Theater, Chicago.

The memorial service for George Burman Foster was held on January 12, 1919. The funeral for John P. Altgeld was held on March 14, 1902.

Short article by Darrow about crime and societal norms.

Affirmative: Professor John C. Kennedy, Alderman 27th Ward. Negative: Clarence Darrow. Garrick Theater, Chicago.

Darrow takes the negative side of the issue. Professor John C. Kennedy was at one time a professor at the University of Chicago. At the time of the debate, he was an alderman from Chicago's 27th ward.

Speech by Clarence Darrow supporting America's involvement in World War I. Darrow's support of the war effort was in sharp contrast to most of his socialist friends. Among his controversial remarks he said, "I have no doubt but what constitutional rights were violated over and over again during the war, and since--and before. In the main, I, as one individual, was willing to see constitutional rights violated during the war." Garrick Theater, Chicago.

Clarence Darrow lecture under the auspices of the Rationalist Educational Society.

Yes: Frederick Starr, Anthropologist, University of Chicago No: Clarence S. Darrow. GARRICK THEATRE Sunday Afternoon, March 28th, 1920.

Affirmative: Clarence Darrow. Negative: Professor Frederick Starr. Garrick Theater, Chicago.

Transcript of presentation given by Clarence Darrow at a dinner honoring Walt Whitman.

Debate on the topic "Resolved: That the United States Continue the Policy of Prohibition as Defined in the Eighteenth Amendment" between Clarence Darrow and his friend Dr. John Haynes Holmes, pastor of the Community Church in New York. During the debate Darrow told the audience: "Take out of this world the men who have drank, down through the past, and you would take away all the poetry and literature and practically all the works of genius that the world has produced. What kind of poem do you suppose you would get out of a glass of ice-water?"

Clarence Darrow vs. Wayne B. Wheeler held in Carnegie Hall, New York City on April 23, 1927. Wayne B. Wheeler was the general counsel for the Anti-Saloon League of America.

Clarence Darrow and Thomas Vernor Smith debate "Is man a 'free agent' or is he the slave of his biological equipment?"

Criticism of the criminal sentencing policies in the United States. Published in The Island Lantern at the U.S. Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington.

Testimonial dinner given by the Biology Group. George A. Shilling was a labor movement leader and Secretary of the Illinois State Board of Labor Commissioners. Darrow met Shilling in 1888 at a single tax club meeting and they became lifelong friends. In his autobiography Darrow wrote, "Mr. Shilling was about the first man I met when I came to Chicago, and he has been a close friend ever since." Clarence Darrow, The Story of My Life.

In 1936 at age 79, Clarence Darrow wrote "Attorney for the Defense" that was published in the May edition of Esquire. Darrow described how to pick a jury and the reasons for seating or rejecting prospective jurors based on ethnicity, class and religious beliefs.