* 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called " Monkey Trial " begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

** Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called " Monkey Trial " begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution in violation of a Tennessee state law.

For example, some of these criticisms were famously asserted by Clarence Darrow in the Scopes Monkey Trial.

Based on a true story of a teacher arrested for teaching his students evolution also known as the " Scopes Monkey Trial ," Spacey played defense lawyer Henry Drummond, a role that was made famous by actor Spencer Tracy in the 1960 film of the same name.

The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was a landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach evolution in any state-funded school.

It was Mencken who provided the trial with its most colorful labels such as the " Monkey Trial " of " the infidel Scopes.

* Scopes Monkey Trial About. com

* Unpublished Photographs from 1925 Tennessee vs. John Scopes " Monkey Trial " Found in Smithsonian Archives

* July 11-John T. Raulston, Scopes Monkey Trial judge ( b. 1868 )

** Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the " Monkey Law " ( officially the Butler Act ; see the Scopes Trial ).

* September 22 – John T. Raulston, American state judge ( Scopes Monkey Trial ) ( d. 1956 )

Among his many other wide-ranging non-fiction works were The Great Monkey Trial ( about the Scopes Trial ), The Ragged Edge of Science, Energy and Power, The Heroic Age of American Invention, The Day of the Dinosaur ( which argued, among other things, that evolution took hold after Darwin because of the Victorian interest spurred by recently popularized dinosaur remains, corresponding to legends of dragons ), and The Evolution of Naval Weapons ( a U. S. government textbook ).

* The Great Monkey Trial ( 1968 )-the definitive popular account of the Scopes Trial

Inherit the Wind ( 1960 film ) | Inherit the Wind ( 1960 ), the first of four films Tracy made with Stanley Kramer, depicted the Scopes Trial | Scopes " Monkey Trial " of 1925

Tracy did not appear on the screen again until October 1960, with the release of Inherit the Wind, a film based on the 1925 Scopes " Monkey Trial " which debated the right to teach evolution in schools.

Mencken is known for writing The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the " Monkey Trial ".

The fossil was introduced as evidence by Clarence Darrow in defense of John Scopes during the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial.

Visitor to the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925.

* 1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $ 100.

* 1925 – Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

* 1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Clarence Darrow ( left ) and William Jennings Bryan chat in court during the Scopes Trial.

Edward J. Larson, a historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, notes: " Like so many archetypal American events, the trial itself began as a publicity stunt.

Alleged is a romantic drama set around the Scopes Trial.

* Scopes Trial Home Page by Douglas Linder.

Twenty-two telegraphers sent out 165, 000 words per day on the trial over thousands of miles of telegraph wires hung for the purpose ; more words were transmitted to Britain about the Scopes trial than for any previous American event.

It was not until the 1960s that the Scopes trial began to be mentioned in the history textbooks of American high schools and colleges, usually as an example of the conflict between fundamentalists and modernists, and often in sections that also talked about the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the South.

The Christian right has not supported the teaching of evolution in the past, but it does not have the ability to stop it being taught in public schools as was done during the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee, in which a science teacher went on trial for teaching about the subject of evolution in a public school.

When asked about the test case, Scopes was initially reluctant to get involved, but after some discussion he told the group gathered in Robinson's Drugstore, " If you can prove that I've taught evolution and that I can qualify as a defendant, then I'll be willing to stand trial.

Though William Jennings Bryan famously testified to some questions about Biblical creation in the 1925 Scopes v. State trial, that Court, like this one, was asked only to judge whether or not teachings about human evolution could be prohibited in the public schools.

In the fall of 1925 — shortly after the Scopes Trial — Jones and his wife were driving in south Florida talking about the need for an orthodox Christian college as an alternative to what he perceived to be loss of both state and denominational colleges to secularism.

He was indicted on May 25, after three students testified against him at the grand jury, at the behest of Scopes.

Nearly all these efforts were rejected, but Mississippi and Arkansas did put anti-evolution laws on the books after the Scopes trial that would outlive the Butler Act.

In the half century after the Scopes Trial the Fundamentalists had little success in shaping government policy, and generally were defeated in their efforts to reshape the mainline denominations.

On July 26, 1925, he drove from Chattanooga to Dayton to attend a church service, ate a meal, and died ( the result of diabetes and fatigue ) in his sleep that afternoon — just five days after the Scopes trial ended.

Dayton is also home to Bryan College, a four-year Christian liberal arts school named in honor of William Jennings Bryan, who died in Dayton five days after the Scopes Trial ended.

Hutchinson did not file his story until after the Scopes appeal was decided in 1927.

The Arkansas statute was modeled after Tennessee's 1925 " Butler Act ", the subject of the well known Scopes Trial in 1925.

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Ryskind wrote skits including a satire of President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, and a parody of the Scopes Trial, which was dropped from the show after William Jennings Bryan died.

Writer David S. Cohen had the inspiration for the episode after visiting the American Museum of Natural History, and decided to loosely parallel themes from the Scopes Monkey Trial.

Following Bryan's death after the Scopes Trial, his son, William Jennings Bryan, Jr., briefly accepted the presidency of the league.