2 Quotes & Sayings By Scopes Trial
The Scopes Trial was a landmark United States Supreme Court case decided on July 10, 1925, in Dayton, Tennessee. In it, John T. Scopes was tried and convicted of violating a Tennessee State law which made it a crime to teach the theory of evolution from a school textbook. Carol M
Swain of Vanderbilt University has described the trial as "one of the most important cultural events of the twentieth century."