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In March 1925, Tennessee passed a law that made teaching evolution a crime. The state legislature passed the law forbidding public schools to teach the theory taught by Darwin, that humans evolved from lower forms of life through evolution, rather than from a single omnipotent creator as suggested in the biblical book of Genesis. The American Civil Liberties Union was outraged this restriction and promised to defend any teacher who challenged the new law. John T. Scopes a football coach and substitute biology teacher from Dayton, was arrested for violating the law, after he had volunteered to serve as a test case for the ACLU by teaching evolution to his class. In his biology class, Scopes read several passages from Civic Biology a textbook banned by the legislature for its theories on evolution. In July of that summer Scope's trial became a headline media event. The American Civil Liberties Union hired Clarence Darrow, one the most famous trial lawyer of the day, to defend Scopes. William Jennings Bryan, the former secretary of state, three-time presidential candidate, and strongly Presbyterian anti-evolutionist was hired to argued for prosecution. The Scope trail was not just a fight over evolution and the role of science and religion in public schools and in American society, but a fight for the sharing of new ideas. News of the trial brought crowds of protesters and reporters into the small town in overwhelming numbers. This trial with it's controversial popularity brought with it the first radio broadcast of a trial in history. Almost overnight, the trail became a national sensation. The trial's climax occurred when Darrow's request for expert testimony from scientists was rejected and he decided instead to take Bryan onto the witness stand as an expert on religi... Please login to view comments from other users.
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