Thomas Theodore Martin (1862-1939) also known as T. T. Martin, was an evangelist who became one of the most important figures of the anti-evolution movement in the 1920s. When the Anti-Evolution League of Minnesota founded by the dynamic William Bell Riley of the First Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota blossomed into the Anti-Evolution League of America in 1923 it was with Kentucky preacher Dr. J. W. Porter as president and Martin as field secretary and editor of the organization's official organ, "The Conflict. " Martin would go on to become the secretary general of the North Carolina Anti-Evolution League, and an official of the Bible Crusaders. Martin showed up for the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, where he rented a store as a book shop on which he hung a giant sign promoting his books. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.