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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 from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. [1]
John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970) was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools. He was tried in a case known as the Scopes Trial, and was found guilty and fined $100 (equivalent to $1,737 in ...
This led to the famous trial of John Scopes for teaching evolution in a public school in Dayton, Tennessee. The ACLU sent in renowned lawyer John Randolph Neal Jr. to defend Scopes. Baptist pastor William Bell Riley, founder and president of the World Christian Fundamentals Association, persuaded William Jennings Bryan to act as its counsel ...
The Scopes trial made anti-evolutionists look ridiculous, but they haven't gone away. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in ...
The legendary confrontation between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow in the Scopes Monkey Trial took place on a hot Monday afternoon on July 20, 1925. But the real clash of the cultural ...
John T. Scopes accepted, and he started teaching his class human evolution, in defiance of the Tennessee law. On May 5, 1925, Scopes was arrested for violating the Butler Act. On July 10, 1925, the trial, known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, began and on July 21, 1925, Scopes was found guilty by the jury and convicted by the judge. He was fined $100.
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 attorney and fundamentalist religious leader, William Jennings Bryan, and noted defense attorney and religious agnostic, Clarence Darrow. It was repealed in 1967.
Mencken's columns on the Scopes Trial at positiveatheism.org; The Papers of the Wilton C. Dinges Collection (H. L. Mencken Collection) at Gettysburg College; H. L. and Sara Haardt Mencken Collection at Goucher College; H. L. Mencken Papers Archived September 6, 2015, at the Wayback Machine at Loyola University New Orleans; FBI file on H. L. Mencken