oung high school biology teacher who broke the law in Dayton, Tennessee
regarding the banning of the teachings of evolution in the school
It may be summed up that our nation in the 1920' had opposing views with
regards to the teaching of evolution " Darwism_____________" (Dimartino,
hand out in class). In the summer of 1925 Dayton, Tennessee was receiving
all the journalistic attention it could stand. Many northern states
mocked the behavior of the southern opinions with regards to the
Darwinian theories. This trial was an argument, a debate over which group
would dominate the American culture, the modernists or the
traditionalists? This issue mattered more than the defendant did in this
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