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The Scopes Monkey Trial (Images of America)

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The 1925 case against high school coach and science teacher John Scopes, arrested for teaching evolution in defiance of a Tennessee state law, was once The usa’s original “Trial of the Century.” The proceedings started as a publicity stunt but grew into a landmark event within the nation’s history. The trial featured three-time presidential candidate and fundamentalist leader William Jennings Bryan, who argued on behalf of the prosecution, and famed agnostic attorney Clarence Darrow, who helped defend Scopes. Even if the Scopes case produced no legal precedent, the trial has been analyzed by historians, praised and vilified by politicians and preachers, cited in countless legal, political, and theological skirmishes, and retold in plays, movies, museum exhibits, and tv documentaries. Images of The usa: The Scopes Monkey Trial examines the events that captured the eye of the world and also have much to show us as of late.

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