The Champions of John Scopes: a Defense that Shaped History
Words: 809 1141During the hot summer of 1925 Dayton Tennessee was the strange heart of a major court case that put faith against science and progress against custom. A young high school teacher called John Scopes was at the center of this fight. He was accused of breaking the Butler Act by teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in a public school. The trial which became famous as the "Scopes Monkey Trial" was not only held in one place but it was […]