Charles Lee Smith

Charles Lee Smith

Charles Lee Smith, founding president of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism (the Four A's).

Smith Trashes Bible

Smith Trashes Bible

In a publicity photo from later in his life, Smith prepares to hurl a Gideon Bible into the wastebasket. Image courtesy of Roderick Bradford.

Godless Girl still

Godless Girl still

Lina Basquette portrayed the title character in Cecil B. DeMille's The Godless Girl (1928). The film was influenced by the "junior atheist movement" of the Four A's and loosely based on one of its Los Angeles recruits, child evangelist-turned-atheist campaigner Queen Silver.

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