The Crowell Trust is a charitable foundation in the United States which states that it "is dedicated to the teaching and active extension of the doctrines of Evangelical Christianity". It has funded a television program opposing evolution

Evolution

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, which television station KNME

KNME

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 refused to broadcast.


The foundation was established in 1927 by American businessperson Henry Parsons Crowell

Henry Parsons Crowell

Henry Parsons Crowell was an American businessman, founder of the Quaker Oats Company and a philanthropist.At the end of the 19th century, steam engines, telegraph and telephone systems, electricity and typewriters were part of the explosion of technology in America.- Character :Henry Parsons...

, who was founder of the Quaker Oats Company

Quaker Oats Company

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, but not himself a Quaker. The foundation makes grants to various organizations in order to promote Evangelical Christianity.