TEACHING THEORY OF EVOLUTION
TENNESSEE REFUSES TO LIFT BAN NASHVILLE, February 19 By a solemn vote of 67 to 20, the Tennessee Legislature to-day refused to repeal the state's famous "monkey law," banning the teaching of the theory of evolution in publicly-maintained schools This action recalls the conviction a decade ago of John Scopes, a school teacher, for violation of the law, and the famous trial in which the late William Jennings Bryan defended the fundamentalist conception of Biblical teachings and Mr Clarence Darrow argued for a "scientific method" of public education.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21404, 21 February 1935, Page 13
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