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Scopes was found guilty and was fined $100 (equivalent to $1,700 in 2023), but the verdict was overturned on a technicality. The trial served its purpose of drawing intense national publicity, as national reporters flocked to Dayton to cover the high-profile lawyers who had agreed to represent each side.
The Scopes Trial: Destiny in Dayton re-tells the story of a Rhea County High School teacher who was charged with violating a new law that prohibited teaching Darwin’s theory of human evolution in public schools.
However, a single 1925 event placed Dayton on the world-map—the Scopes Trial. The Butler Act, a newly passed Tennessee law, made teaching evolution in public schools illegal. The Scopes Trial resulted from a plan by the American Civil Liberties Union to test the law, and a desire by Dayton leaders to attract business to the community.
Pretty much every summer since 1988, this tiny Appalachian town (pop. 7,200) has roused itself to celebrate that publicity stunt gone viral. The Scopes Trial Festival, held over two weekends in ...
4 days ago · Scopes Trial, (July 10–21, 1925, Dayton, Tennessee, U.S.), highly publicized trial (known as the “Monkey Trial”) of a Dayton, Tennessee, high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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Nov 24, 2009 · July 10, 1925: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial begins with John Thomas Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a...
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Jul 5, 2005 · Eighty years ago, in July 1925, the mixture of religion, science and the public schools caught fire in Dayton, Tenn. The Scopes trial — or "Monkey Trial," as it was called — dominated...
