• 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • classroom, but one biology teacher, John T. Scopes, ignored the law and taught his students evolution. Scopes decided that the students should learn evolution...
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    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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  • Scopes for teaching evolution. She sides with Scopes, who is her secret crush. John Scopes: schoolteacher arrested for teaching evolution in a trial that...
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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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  • and Scopes was fined $100. The Tennessee Supreme Court later upheld the law. Still, it overturned the conviction on a technicality. The Scopes trial was...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • American Christian fundamentalism and the evangelical movement. The Scopes trial in 1925 served to unify the fundamentalists, and with them, dispensationalism...
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  • Inherit the Wind (1999 film) (category Scopes Trial)
    a parable which fictionalized the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial as a means of discussing the 1950s McCarthy trials. It was George C. Scott's final film role...
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    National attention came Tennessee's way during the trial of John T. Scopes, also called the Scopes Trial. In 1925, the General Assembly, as part of a general...
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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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