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 ...

Dayton community leaders found 24-year-old John T. 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 ...

While there were fights about all of this 100 years ago, it’s as if the case was ripped from today’s headlines,” said Douglas ...

Also unusual was a Knoxville man involved in the trial. John Randolph Neal Jr. represented defendant John Scopes, the Rhea County instructor charged with teaching evolution, then a violation of a ...

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 ...