Scopes Case
Microform Collection
Location: Microfilm KF 224 S3 A4 1978
Scope: "John T. Scopes was a biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee. He agreed to serve as a defendant in an American Civil Liberties Union test case of Tennessee's anti-evolutionary law. He was arrested for teaching evolution and held for a jury trial in July of 1925. The issue at stake--whether the state could proscribe the teaching of any science that appeared to contradict the Bible--predated the trial and has remained a source of bitter controversy." Dictionary of American History. This trial is also called the "Monkey Trial". The microfilm collection contains the documents and transcripts of the trial.
How to search the collection: There is no index to this trial. The microfilm does include a bibliography.
Famous Trials in American History: Tennessee vs. John Scopes. The "Monkey Trial". 1925
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Time Period: 20th Century
Subject keywords: Trials
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