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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.
Nov 17, 2017 · The Scopes Trial, also known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was the 1925 prosecution of science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in a Tennessee public school, which a recent bill had...
May 25, 2015 · John T. Scopes was a 24-year-old physics, chemistry and math teacher at the public high school in Dayton, Tennessee, when local community leaders persuaded him to answer the ACLU’s call for a...
Jul 5, 2005 · Dayton teacher and football coach John Scopes, seen here during sentencing, was fined $100 on July 21, 1925. Both Bryan and the ACLU offer to pay it for him.
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...
Jul 10, 2015 · The case against teacher John Scopes was a turning point for the acceptance of teaching evolution in schools
Feb 17, 2002 · In 1925, a biology teacher named John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in defiance of Tennessee state law. His trial became an epic event of the twentieth century, a debate over free...
