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Hollywood didn’t ignore the play’s success either. In 1960, Inherit the Wind became a multiple Oscar-nominated film, ...
Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on ...
As the famous Scopes trial, a landmark case out of Dayton, Tennessee, celebrates its centennial anniversary, themes of the ...
A century ago, a Tennessee science teacher's fight to teach evolution ignited national controversy. But battles over school curricula still rage.
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The Scopes 'Monkey Trial' has not adjourned
It is the story of Bertram Cates (John Scopes), a young biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who is arrested and stands ...
On July 10, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, in which John Scopes was accused of teaching evolution in school, a violation of state law, began in Dayton, Tenn.
On July 10, 1925, in a Tennessee courtroom, a high-school teacher named John Scopes was tried for presenting the concept of ...