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Scopes Monkey Trial

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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SCOPE MONKEY TRIAL

  • A famous American legal case in 1925 in which a high school teacher , John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's butler act, which made it unlawful to each human evolution in any state-funded school .

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

  • After 1920 he was a strong supporter of prohibition and energetically attacked Darwinism and evolution, most famously at the scopes trial in 1925. Five days after the end of the case , he died in his sleep.
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CLARENCE DARROW

  • American lawyer , leading member of the American civil liberties union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Leob in their trial for murdering 14 year old "bobby" , for defending Ossian sweet, and defending john t. Scopes in the scope "monkey" trial.
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