Scopes was arrested on May 9 and the trial started July 10. The Scopes trial became sensational largely because it brought ...

Butler Act banned Tennessee educators from teaching evolution, but the key lawamker later admitted that he didn't know anything about the topic.

The first page of the Tennessee Supreme Court ruling on the appeal of the John T. Scopes vs. state of Tennessee trial, commonly known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, is shown at the Tennessee State ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be a publicity stunt. A hundred years later, it is remembered as far more. In March 1925, Tennessee became the ...

Also unusual was a Knoxville man involved in the trial. John Randolph Neal Jr. represented defendant John Scopes, the Rhea County ... whether man descended from a monkey or whether the story ...

One hundred years ago, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” made world headlines ... paid the $500 bail for the defendant, John Scopes, 24, the high school biology teacher charged with teaching evolution ...