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john T

[Category]:

English

[Paper Title]:

john T. Scopes

[Text]:

In March 1925, Tennessee passed a law that made teaching evolution a crime.
The state legislature passed the law forbidding public schools to teach the
theory taught by Darwin, that humans evolved from lower forms of life through
evolution, rather than from a single omnipotent creator as suggested in the
biblical book of Genesis. The American Civil Liberties Union was outraged this
restriction and promised to defend any teacher who challenged the new law. John
T. Scopes a football coach and substitute biology teacher from Dayton, was
arrested for violating the law, after he had volunteered to serve as a test case
for the ACLU by teaching evolution to his class. In his biology class, Scopes
read several passages from Civic Biology a textbook banned by the legislature
for its theories on evolution.

In July of that summer Scope's trial became a headline media event. The
American Civil Liberties Union hired Clarence Darrow, one the most famous trial
lawyer of the day, to defend Scopes. William Jennings Bryan, the former
secretary of state, three-time presidential candidate, and strongly Presbyterian
anti-evolutionist was hired to argued for prosecution.

The Scope trail was not just a fight over evolution and the role of science
and religion in public schools and in American society, but a fight for the
sharing of new ideas. News of the trial brought crowds of protesters and
reporters into the small town in overwhelming numbers. This trial with it's
controversial popularity brought with it the first radio broadcast of a trial in
history. Almost overnight, the trail became a national sensation. The trial's
climax occurred when Darrow's request for expert testimony from scientists was
rejected and he decided instead to take Bryan onto the ...

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