Dayton was in an economic slump, and the town's movers and shakers thought a sensational trial would put Dayton "on the map." John Scopes was playing tennis when a group of businessmen called him ...

May 5: At a meeting in Robinson's drugstore in Dayton, Tennessee, science teacher John Scopes agrees to become the ACLU's defendant in a trial testing the Tennessee anti-evolution law. May 13 ...