John Scopes

Teacher and defendant in the Scopes trial

John Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was arrested in 1925 for teaching evolution in a public school. The trial that followed became a national sensation and is still widely studied today. Scopes was a graduate of the University of Chicago and had taught at several schools in the United States. He was a vocal advocate for evolution and was arrested for violating a Tennessee law that prohibited the teach...