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John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee 's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. [1]
May 25, 2015 · On May 25, 1925, John T. Scopes—the defendant in the famous “Monkey Trial”—was indicted for teaching the theory of evolution in his high school science class. Updated: October 19,...
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John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970) was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools. He was tried in a case known as the Scopes Trial, and was found guilty and fined $100 (equivalent to $1,737 in ...
Apr 2, 2014 · (1900-1970) Synopsis. Born in Kentucky in 1900, John Scopes was a teacher in Tennessee who became famous for going on trial for teaching evolution. Scopes was part of an American Civil...
Jul 10, 2015 · By Victor Luckerson. July 10, 2015 10:48 AM EDT. T oday the theory of evolution is taught in schools across the United States, but that wasn’t the case when teacher John Thomas Scopes went on...
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On the most sensational day of the trial, when Clarence Darrow interrogated William Jennings Bryan as an expert on the Bible, Scopes actually became a reporter for his own trial — filling in...
Jun 12, 2006 · Feature. Scopes Trial. In 1925, science teacher John Scopes agreed to challenge Tennessee's new anti-evolution law in court. The resulting legal battle pitted two of the country's premier orators against each other and treated newspaper readers worldwide to what Baltimore Sun columnist H.L. Mencken called a 'genuinely fabulous' show.
