Scopes was arrested on May 9 and the trial started July 10. The Scopes trial became sensational largely because it brought ...

Butler Act banned Tennessee educators from teaching evolution, but the key lawamker later admitted that he didn't know ...

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According to the Tennessee State Library, Dayton community leaders found 24-year-old John T. Scopes, who had just finished his first year of teaching, willing to take up the test case. Scopes was ...

Here's a look at what you need to know about the Scopes trial: No. In 1859, British naturalist Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of Species,” which explained his theory of evolution by ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be a publicity stunt. A hundred years later, it is remembered as far more. In March 1925, Tennessee became the ...