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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.
Apr 2, 2014 · John Scopes was a high school teacher who volunteered to challenge a Tennessee law that banned the teaching of evolution in 1925. He was found guilty but his conviction was overturned, and his case became known as the Scopes \"Monkey Trial\".
Apr 18, 2024 · Scopes Trial, also called the ‘Monkey Trial,’ highly publicized trial that took place July 10–21, 1925, during which a Dayton, Tennessee, high-school teacher, John T. Scopes, was charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
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John Scopes was a science teacher who agreed to be prosecuted for teaching evolution in Tennessee in 1925. He became a pawn in a media spectacle that pitted Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan against each other in the famous \"Monkey Trial\".
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May 25, 2015 · John T. Scopes was a young teacher who became the test case for a law that banned the teaching of evolution in Tennessee in 1925. He was defended by Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan clashed over the Bible and science in the famous \"Scopes Monkey Trial\".
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Nov 17, 2017 · John Scopes was a science teacher who was prosecuted in 1925 for teaching evolution in Tennessee, a crime under the Butler Act. The trial featured a famous clash between anti-evolutionist William Jennings Bryan and evolutionist Clarence Darrow, who challenged the constitutionality of the law.
The theory of evolution and a schoolteacher named John T. Scopes went before a jury in the small town of Dayton, Tenn., 90 years ago Friday.
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