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Monday, May 6, 2024

Scopes

High school teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in Dayton, Tennessee on May 5, 1925.

The arrest came exactly according to plan: Scopes and a group of local businessmen had decided to provoke the indictment in order to challenge a new Tennessee law banning the teaching of evolution.

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