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Feedback Did you find what you were looking for on this webpage? Do you have anything else to tell us? Please tell us what you were looking for. Do not include sensitive information, such as Social Security or bank account numbers. Your feedback will not receive a response. But one thing the Scopes "monkey trial" of did not do was settle the contentious issue of evolution in the schools, which continues to incite strong passions and court actions to this day.
Narrowly, the trial was about challenging a newly passed Tennessee state law against teaching evolution or any other theory denying the biblical account of the creation of man.
Broadly, the case reflected a collision of traditional views and values with more modern ones: It was a time of evangelism by figures such as Aimee Semple McPherson and Billy Sunday against forces, including jazz, sexual permissiveness, and racy Hollywood movies, which they thought were undermining the authority of the Bible and Christian morals in society.
John Scopes, the year-old defendant, taught in the public high school in Dayton, Tenn. He agreed to be the focus of a test case attacking the new law, and was arrested for teaching evolution and tried with the American Civil Liberties Union backing his defense. His lawyer was the legendary Clarence Darrow, who, besides being a renowned defense attorney for labor and radical figures, was an avowed agnostic in religious matters.
Vanzetti was silent. For journalists at the time, the courtroom drama was unmissable, and the public was hungry to hear more. Still, Sinclair felt like many later Americans, writes NPR: whether they were guilty or innocent, the pair never got a fair trial.
Their case has been revisited by the courts a number of times since the pair were executed in and no conclusive answer about their guilt or innocence has been reached. And the pair have lived on in popular culture. Appeals Court main phone: Social Law Library main phone: For information on emergency or weather-related closures and delays call: The evidence.
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