The Scopes Trial - 2 B 23
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Tennessee Historical Commission Marker 2 B 23 - The Scopes Trial located in Dayton, TN.
Waymark Code: WM18T5
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 02/25/2007
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2 B 23
The Scope Trial
Here from July 10 to 21, 1925, John Thomas Scopes, a county high school teacher, was tried for teaching that man descended from a lower order of animals, in violation of a recently passed state law. William Jennings Bryan assisted the prosecution: Clarence Darrow, Arthur Garfield Mays and Dudley Field Malone, the defense. Scopes was convicted.
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Marker reads the same on both sides.
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