In 1925, an American teacher’s fight to educate his high school students about evolution thrust a small-town controversy into the national spotlight.
The case, now commonly known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, began when John Thomas Scopes taught Charles Darwins theory of evolution in his classroom in Dayton, Tennessee. Scopes was charged under a state law that made it illegal to teach any doctrine that denied the creation of man as told in the Bible.
The case ultimately reached the Tennessee Supreme Court, which upheld the law but acquitted Scopes on a technicality.
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