Scopes Trial

The Mahalo Top 7

1. Wikipedia: Scopes Trial
2. University of Missouri at Kansas City Law School: Scopes Trial Homepage
3. NPR: The Scopes Monkey Trial, 80 Years Later
4. Bryan College: World's Most Famous Court Trial
5. PBS: American Experience - Monkey Trial
6. Jurist: State v. John Scopes (The "Monkey Trial")
7. Ohio State University: The Scopes Trial

Scopes Trial Background and Causes

The Butler Act and Other Laws

• University of Missouri at Kansas City Law School: The Butler Act
• Wikipedia: Butler Act
• Tennessee Encyclopedia Of History And Culture: John Washington Butler
• Antievolution: The Critic's Resource: Anti-Evolution and the Law

Evolution

• Literature.org: The Origin of Species
• University of California, Berkeley: Understanding Evolution

Evolution vs. Creationism

• History.com: Academic Freedom
• National Academy of Sciences: Science and Creationism
• Wikipedia: Creation-Evolution Controversy
• CreationWiki
• Evolution Education Wiki

Scopes Trial Central Figures

William Jennings Bryan

• Bryan College: W. J. Bryan & the Scopes Trial
• Wikipedia: William Jennings Bryan
• PBS: People & Events: William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
• William Jennings Bryan Recognition Project
• Tennessee Tech University: William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech, 1896

Clarence Darrow

• Wikipedia: Clarence Darrow
• University of Missouri at Kansas City Law School: The Clarence Darrow Homepage
• PBS: People & Events: Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)
• FBI: Clarence Seward Darrow (289 Kbs)
• New York Times: Obituary - Clarence Darrow Is Dead in Chicago

John T. Scopes

• Wikipedia: John T. Scopes
• PBS: People & Events: John Scopes (1900-1970)
• University of Missouri at Kansas City Law School: Reflections -- Forty Years After

Scopes Trial Images and Media

• Smithsonian Institution Archives: Unpublished Photographs from 1925 Tennessee vs. John Scopes "Monkey Trial"
• Library of Congress: Today in History
• University of Missouri at Kansas City Law School: Images from the Scopes Trial
• Ohio State University: Scopes Trial Photographs
• NPR: Timeline: Remembering the Scopes Monkey Trial (Radio Broadcast)
• Science Friday: Scopes Trial 75th Anniversary (Radio Broadcast)
• History Channel: This Day in History: July 10 (Video)

Scopes Trial Books and Research

• ScopesTrial.org: A Bibliography of the Scopes Trial
• Amazon.com: Scopes Trial Books
• American Heritage: 20 Questions about the Scopes Trial
• CNN: 75 Years After the Scopes Trial... 
• American History: Scopes Trial
• ERIC: Anatomy of the Scopes Trial: Mencken's Media Event (266Kbs)

Scopes Trial Blogs and Message Boards

• Sabrina's Hat: Scopes 2.0
• Jbrisbin: Trial of the (Last) Century
• Speaking of Science: The Textbook Used by Scopes

Scopes Trial Timeline

• March 21, 1925: The Butler Act becomes effective, prohibiting the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.
• May 4, 1925: The ACLU runs newspaper ads in Tennessee, offering to finance a test case for a teacher willing to teach evolution, in order to have the law declared unconstitutional.
• May 5, 1925: A group of businessmen in Dayton, Tennessee, looking to bring publicity to their town, convince John T. Scopes to become a defendant in a test case.
• May 25, 1925: Scopes is indicted by a grand jury.
• July 10, 1925: The case comes before judge John T. Raulston.
• July 20, 1925: The defense calls William Jennings Bryan, counsel to the prosecution, to the stand. Bryan is interrogated by defense attorney Clarence Darrow about his knowledge of the Bible.
• July 21, 1925: The jury announces a verdict of guilty. Judge Raulston fines Scopes $100.
• January 15, 1927: The Tennessee Supreme Court overturns the guilty verdict on a technicality - the judge had set the fine instead of the jury. The Butler Act remains in effect.
• January 1955: The play Inherit the Wind, based on the events of the Scopes Trial, opens on Broadway.
• May 16, 1967: The Butler Act is repealed.

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