- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustration
- Prologue BOSTON, 1926
- Part One 1880–1914
- Part Two 1914–1919
- Part Three 1920–1930
- 20 THE DRY MILLENNIUM DAWNS
- 21 OF POLITICS AND PROSE
- 22 THAT MAN IN BALTIMORE
- 23 THE DUEL OF SEX
- 24 OLD DISCORD AND NEW ALLIANCES
- 25 THE SCOPES TRIAL
- 26 IN THE CRUCIBLE
- 27 BANNED IN BOSTON
- 28 THE GREAT GOD MENCKEN
- 29 A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
- 30 THE GERMAN VALENTINO
- 31 THE SEA OF MATRIMONY
- 32 VARIATIONS ON A FAMILIAR THEME
- Part Four 1930–1935
- Part Five 1936–1940
- Part Six 1941–1948
- <i>Part Seven</i> 1949–1956
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
THE SCOPES TRIAL
THE SCOPES TRIAL
- Chapter:
- (p.271) 25 THE SCOPES TRIAL
- Source:
- Mencken
- Author(s):
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter presents a history of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, when famed lawyer Clarence Darrow defended John Thomas Scopes, a schoolteacher in Dayton, Tennessee, for teaching the theory of evolution. Leading the prosecution was Christian fundamentalist, William Jennings Bryan, whom Mencken had encountered as a reporter years before. The chapter focuses on Mencken's crucial role in the trial, and the positive and negative influence he exerted.
Keywords: John Scopes, fundamentalism, Darwin, Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan, Yokels, Arthur Garfield Hays, evolution
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- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustration
- Prologue BOSTON, 1926
- Part One 1880–1914
- Part Two 1914–1919
- Part Three 1920–1930
- 20 THE DRY MILLENNIUM DAWNS
- 21 OF POLITICS AND PROSE
- 22 THAT MAN IN BALTIMORE
- 23 THE DUEL OF SEX
- 24 OLD DISCORD AND NEW ALLIANCES
- 25 THE SCOPES TRIAL
- 26 IN THE CRUCIBLE
- 27 BANNED IN BOSTON
- 28 THE GREAT GOD MENCKEN
- 29 A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY
- 30 THE GERMAN VALENTINO
- 31 THE SEA OF MATRIMONY
- 32 VARIATIONS ON A FAMILIAR THEME
- Part Four 1930–1935
- Part Five 1936–1940
- Part Six 1941–1948
- <i>Part Seven</i> 1949–1956
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
