# Clay Fulks

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{{short description|American writer (1880–1964)}}
'''Clay Fulks''' (1880–1964) was a writer on Arkansas lore.<ref>Radical education in the rural South: Commonwealth College, 1922-1940 - Page 94 William H. Cobb - "Arkansan Clay Fulks. Wilson, a former minister, would teach psychology while Fulks, writer and expert on Arkansas lore, was designated to teach courses in law and agricultural problems. A well-known liberal/radical, Fulks had "been battling the forces of fundamentalist ignorance for a quarter of a century" as a "teacher, school principal, attorney, nationally published satirical essayist and gubernatorial candidate. "</ref>

In his articles Fulks was one of those who shared [H. L. Mencken](/source/H._L._Mencken)'s dichotomy between a backward and an enlightened South.<ref>Serpent in Eden: H. L. Mencken and the South - p108  Fred C. Hobson - 1974 "In articles by Johnson, Lewis, Emily Clark, Charles Pekor of Georgia, and Clay Fulks of Arkansas, among others148 — and also by non-Southerners who ventured into the South and reported back to the Mercury149 — there existed a constant ..."</ref> This dichotomy Fulks blamed on an infestation of parsons.<ref>Rethinking Zion: how the print media placed fundamentalism in the Mary Beth Swetnam Mathews - 2006 -p95 "According to the author, Clay Fulks, "pragmatical parsons infest the Arkansas region" and "incite" the laity "continuously against intelligence wherever it shows its head."2'  ."</ref>

In 1918, Fulks was the unsuccessful [Socialist Party of America](/source/Socialist_Party_of_America) candidate for [governor of Arkansas](/source/governor_of_Arkansas) against [Charles Hillman Brough](/source/Charles_Hillman_Brough).<ref>The governors of Arkansas: essays in political biography p152 ed Timothy Paul Donovan, Willard B. Gatewood, Jeannie M. Whayne - 1995 "The [Republican Party](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States)) did not nominate a candidate but endorsed Brough, who defeated the [Socialist](/source/Socialist_Party_(United_States)) candidate, Clay Fulks, by a margin of 62273 votes. As governor, Brough proposed sweeping reforms. He urged that a new constitution be ..."</ref><ref>Centennial history of Arkansas  1  [Dallas T. Herndon](/source/Dallas_T._Herndon) - 1922 -  The election was held on November 5, 1918, and the vote for governor was as follows: Brough, 68,191; Fulks, 4,792. ... Much of his message was devoted to the part Arkansas played in [World War I](/source/World_War_I). Further mention of this part of the ...</ref>

Fulks wrote ''Rev. Ben M. Bogard Fails to Halt Devil Darrow'', an attack of ridicule on the [conservative](/source/conservative) theologian [Ben M. Bogard](/source/Ben_M._Bogard), of [Little Rock](/source/Little_Rock), [Arkansas](/source/Arkansas), who challenged the secularism of the [Chicago](/source/Chicago) attorney [Clarence Darrow](/source/Clarence_Darrow).

Fulks also wrote ''The War Between Science and Faith''.

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