Scopes, who had just finished his first year of teaching, willing to take up the test case. Scopes was arrested on May 9 and the trial started July 10. The Scopes trial became sensational largely ...

Neal to file application for federal injunction in evolution case COOKEVILLE, Tenn., July 6, 1925 (UP) -- Application for an injunction to prevent the Scopes evolution trial at Dayton on Friday ...

Nearly a century ago, one of the most famous legal showdowns in American history unfolded in a Dayton, Tennessee, courtroom with defense attorney and former Kinsman resident Clarence Darrow serving as ...

The history of the prosecution case of State of Tennessee versus John T. Scopes in 1925 for teaching the Theory of Evolution ...

the day before Scopes’s arrest, Chatanooga Times ran an ad in which American Civil Liberties Union offered to pay the legal fees of a Tennessee teacher willing to act as defendant in a case ...

Neal to file application for federal injunction in evolution case COOKEVILLE, Tenn., July 6, 1925 (UP) -- Application for an injunction to prevent the Scopes evolution trial at Dayton on Friday ...