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Gr 4–7—In May of 1925, the school board members and leading businessmen of Dayton, TN, hatched a plan to attract visitors, new business, and media attention to their small town. They induced John Scopes, a high school science teacher, to face charges of teaching evolution in defiance of Tennessee's recently passed prohibition against teaching "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible." Thus, the ACLU finally had a test case to challenge the constitutionality of the anti-evolution laws that were cropping up in state legislatures across the U.S. By July, the media cir...Log In or Sign Up to Read More