1 Jan 1925 Jahr - Scopes trial

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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): An organization formed during the Red Scare of the 1920s to protect free speech rights.

Scopes Trail: The 1925 trial of John Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, for violating his state’s ban on teaching evolution. The trial created a nationwide media frenzy and came to be seen as a showdown between urban and rural values.

Journalists dubbed the Scopes trial “the monkey trial.” This label referred both to Darwin’s argument that human beings and other primates share a common ancestor and to the circus atmosphere at the trial, which was broadcast live over a Chicago radio station. (Proving that urbanites had their own prejudices, acerbic critic and city-dweller H. L. Mencken dismissed antievolutionists, widely associated with rural areas, as “gaping primates of the upland valleys.”) The jury took only eight minutes to deliver its verdict: guilty. Though the Tennessee Supreme Court later overturned Scopes’s conviction on a minor technicality (the judge, not the jury, had set the fine), the law remained on the books for more than thirty years.

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