The Scopes trial, formally The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case...
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known as the Scopes Trial, and was found guilty and fined $100 (equivalent to $1,737 in 2023). Scopes was born in 1900 to Thomas Scopes and Mary Alva...
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John T. Raulston (section Scopes Trial)
Scopes, a 24-year-old schoolteacher. Raulston accelerated the convening of the grand jury and "... all but instructed the grand jury to indict Scopes...
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Clarence Darrow (section Scopes Trial)
several criminal matters, including the Leopold and Loeb murder trial, the Scopes "monkey" trial, and the Ossian Sweet defense. He was a leading member of the...
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Edward J. Larson (redirect from The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion)
1998 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion. The book argues...
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central figure in the Scopes Trial regarding the teaching of evolution CinemaScope or Scope prints, anamorphic film prints Scope (magazine), a South African...
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Dayton, Tennessee (category Scopes Trial)
the city and extends south to Graysville. Dayton was the site of the Scopes Trial in 1925 dealing with the creation–evolution controversy. The community...
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The Great Monkey Trial is a book on the Scopes Trial by L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1968. The book is a non-fiction...
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Maynard M. Metcalf (section Scopes trial)
University. He was the only biologist who was allowed to testify in the Scopes Trial. Metcalf specialized in protozoal parasites which he examined in a wide...
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George Rappleyea (section Scopes Trial)
position in the summer of 1925 when he became the chief architect of the Scopes trial. During a meeting at Robinson's Drug Store, it was Rappleyea who convinced...
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William Jennings Bryan (category Scopes Trial)
Darwinism on religious and humanitarian grounds, most famously in the 1925 Scopes trial, dying soon after. Bryan has elicited mixed reactions from various commentators...
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Inherit the Wind (play) (category Scopes Trial)
1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a means to discuss the then-contemporary McCarthy trials. Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized account of the 1925 Scopes "Monkey"...
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Inherit the Wind (1960 film) (category Scopes Trial)
Douglas. Inherit the Wind is a parable that fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a means to discuss McCarthyism. Written in response to the chilling...
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John Randolph Neal Jr. (section Scopes Trial)
and activist, best known for his role as chief counsel during the 1925 Scopes Trial, and as an advocate for the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority...
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known for his role as a co-instigator and prosecutor in the 1925 trial of John T. Scopes, a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher accused of teaching the Theory of...
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Charles Francis Potter (section Scopes Trial)
was adviser on the Bible to Clarence Darrow in his defense of John Thomas Scopes, a schoolteacher who was charged with teaching evolution in his classes...
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Butler Act (category Scopes Trial)
The law was challenged later that year in a famous trial in Dayton, Tennessee called the Scopes Trial which included a raucous confrontation between prosecution...
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teachings of the Bible. This law was tested in the highly publicized Scopes Trial of 1925. The law was upheld by the Tennessee Supreme Court, and remained...
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Civic Biology (category Scopes Trial)
teaching from this textbook that John T. Scopes was brought to trial in Dayton, Tennessee in the Scopes "Monkey" Trial. The views espoused in the book about...
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cases took place under his direction, including the Scopes Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, and its challenge to the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses...
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the 1925 Scopes trial to establish an institution of higher education that would teach from a Christian worldview. During the Scopes trial in 1925, William...
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who helped draw national media attention to the trial. In the half century after the Scopes Trial, fundamentalists had little success in shaping government...
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evolution in public (i.e. state) schools (and which was challenged in the Scopes Trial). He was an admirer of William Jennings Bryan. According to Butler, In...
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contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes Trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial", also gained him attention. The term Menckenian has...
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Rhea County Courthouse (category Scopes Trial)
Built in 1891, it is famous as the scene of the Scopes trial of July 1925, in which teacher John T. Scopes faced charges for including Charles Darwin's theory...
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movement. The Scopes trial in 1925 served to unify fundamentalists, but the movement began to decline soon after the trial. Scopes trial prosecutor and...
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Darrow at the Rhea County Courthouse, Dayton, Tennessee, the site of the Scopes Trial in 1925, where Darrow had argued in favor of the teaching of evolution...
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Chrisope (2001) The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents by Jeffrey P. Moran (2002) Monkey Business: The True Story of the Scopes Trial by Marvin Olasky...
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teaching of the theory of evolution in public schools and led to the Scopes Trial. Peay was born in Christian County, Kentucky, the son of Austin Peay...
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the Sweet segregation case in Detroit as well as the Scopes trial (often called the "monkey trial") in 1925, in which a school teacher in Tennessee was...
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