Similarly Lawrence & Lee's 1955 Inherit the Wind which was a fictionalization of the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" about a teacher being on trial for teaching evol

Similarly Lawrence & Lee's 1955 Inherit the Wind which was a fictionalization of the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" about a teacher being on trial for teaching evolution in the Deep South. Like with The Crucible, it was really talking about the current events of McCarthyism, as in the 1950s it was assumed that everybody accepted evolution by then. Although as later decades showed, creationism wasn't quite as dead as belief in witchcraft.