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

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

Also unusual was a Knoxville man involved in the trial. John Randolph Neal Jr. represented defendant John Scopes, the Rhea ...

The famously agnostic attorney and Hyde Park resident fought a Tennessee law that banned teaching evolution in a case that ...

The last brief witness Frank E. Robinson was a local druggist who expressed his opinion that using the above biology book ...

T his spring the University of Tennessee at Knoxville marks the centennial of the Scopes “monkey trial,” the showdown over the teaching of Darwinian evolution held in Dayton in the summer of 1925.

Nina Helstein has been celebrating the memory of lawyer and Hyde Park resident Clarence Darrow with other Chicagoans nearly every March 13 at a bridge named after him in Jackson Park since she was a ...

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 ...

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 ...