STATE’S “MONKEY LAW”
MOVE TO REPEAL DEFEATED.
THEORY OF EVOLUTION.
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) New York, February 19. A message from Nashville (Tennessee) states that by a solemn vote of 77 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. The action recalls the conviction a decade ago of John Scores, a school teacher, for violation of the law and the famous trial in which the late William Jennings Bryan defended the fundamentalist conception of the biblical teachings and Clarence Darrow argued for a ‘‘scientific method of public education.
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Southland Times, Issue 22512, 21 February 1935, Page 7
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