John Thomas Scopes Inherit The Wind

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John Thomas Scopes, a high school science teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, agreed to the "test" trial, brought forward buy the American Civil Liberties Union against the recently-passed Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in any public school. The plays writers Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee dramatized this account in their play, Inherit the Wind, which was later turned into a major motion
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