Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms.

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 ...

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 ...

(AP) — They called it the “monkey trial.” It was supposed to be a ... Dayton community leaders found 24-year-old John T. Scopes, who had just finished his first year of teaching, willing ...

The 100th anniversary is approaching of the law under which John Thomas Scopes was prosecuted and convicted in Dayton, Tennessee, in the celebrated “monkey trial.” Enacted on March 21 ...