Scopes, John (1900–1970)

John Scopes was the defendant in the 1925 case State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, a landmark in the contentious history of evolution education in the United States.

Scopes was born on August 3, 1900, in Paducah, Kentucky. Following a ...

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