But one thing the Scopes "monkey trial" of 1925 did not do was settle the contentious issue of evolution in the schools, which continues to incite strong passions and court actions to this day.

"Tennessee will be saved the ordeal of another trial in which a proud state is required to make a monkey of itself in a court of law." September: The Book of Legal Lists calls the Scopes trial one ...

American journalist H. L. Mencken dubbed it the “Monkey Trial.” The facts are these: A high school science teacher, John Scopes, was being tried for violating the Butler Act, a recently passed ...

Clarence Darrow, on why he took on the defense of John Scopes at the 'monkey trial' The trial in Dayton, Tenn., that ...