Formally known as "The State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes," it was a trial that was a challenge to the Butler Act.

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As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the ...

Dayton, Tennessee was the center of the world's attention.A biology teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching Ch ...

John Washington Butler, a corn and tobacco farmer serving in the Tennessee House of Representatives, introduced the Butler ...

In 1925, a teacher deliberately broke a law stating that evolution could not be taught in Tennessee classrooms. His trial ...

On July 10, 1925, a 24-year-old high-school teacher named John Scopes was put on trial in Dayton, Tennessee for the crime of ...

The Scopes "Monkey trial" in 1925 in Tennessee wasn't supposed to be about Genesis versus Darwin, but that's the way it ...

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Back in March of 1925, a Tennessee state representative and fundamentalist Christian activist named John W. Butler succeeded in having a law passed prohibiting the state's public schools from teaching ...

The law books record it as State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes. History remembers it as the “ Monkey Trial .” The case ...