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John Scopes, a Tennessee high school teacher, is indicted for teaching the theory of evolution to students of his science classes.

Year: 1925

Geographical Region(s): North America 

Category: Society & Culture

Associated Nation(s): United States

Additional Content:

(Book Review): Review: In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement by Michael Lienesch (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2007)