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The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial of 1925: Faith, Reason, and Public Education
The Milford Museum American History Series continues with a program titled The Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial of 1925: Faith, Reason, and Public Education presented by Lew Miller on Saturday, April 11, 1:00 p.m. at the Milford Public Library in Milford, Delaware. The Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial was a culture war more than 100 years ago. It brought together two well-known personalities of the time, Clarence Darrow, the lawyer for the damned, and William Jennings Bryan, the former three-time candidate for president. It was also the first trial ever to be broadcast on national radio, and it was a public relations stunt by the town of Dayton, Tennessee to bolster their local economy. The trial was an outgrowth of an effort by the state of Tennessee to ban evolution from the teaching of biology in public schools in Tennessee, led by Bryan. The defense, led by Darrow in the criminal trial, hoped to educate the nationwide public about evolutionary science and eventually to reach the Supreme Court of the United States where they were attempting to undermine, once and for all, the efforts to ban evolution from biology teaching.
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