Scopes Trial
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Scopes, a biology teacher, was tried (July, 1925) for teaching Darwinism in a Dayton, Tenn., public school. Clarence Darrow was one of Scopess attorneys, while William Jennings Bryan aided the state prosecutor. Darrow argued that academic...