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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...
The Great Monkey Trial is a book on the Scopes Trial by L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1968. The book is a non-fiction account of the trial, as well as its social and political context and impact.
- Kenneth K. Bailey
- 1968
Jun 12, 2015 · William Jennings Bryan—the “Great Commoner,” three-time Democratic nominee for President, and Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. ruling elder—argued for the prosecution, the State of Tennessee, which alleged that Scopes had broken the Butler Act by teaching human evolution at a state-funded school.
The Monkey Trial. Legendary defense lawyer Clarence Darrow faces off against William Jennings Bryan in the Dayton, Tennessee trial of schoolteacher John Scopes. Bryan died in Dayton five days after the trial ended.
Mar 19, 2020 · The great monkey trial. by. De Camp, L. Sprague (Lyon Sprague), 1907-2000. Publication date. 1968. Topics. Scopes, John Thomas, Scopes, John Thomas, Scopes, John Thomas, Evolution, Biological Evolution, Homme -- Origines, Evolution. Publisher.
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 2023).
L. Sprague de Camp. The true story of a court battle that began on a hot July day in 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. Everyone gathered upon the small town to watch the spectacle of John Scopes being tried for the offense of teaching evolution to his high school biology class.
