On This Day, July 21: Monkey Trial ends with guilty verdict in Tennessee
Monday, July 21, 2025 - 07:05
in Psychology & Sociology
On July 21, 1925, the so-called Monkey Trial, which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in Dayton, Tenn., in one of the great confrontations in legal history, ended with John Thomas Scopes convicted and fined $100 for teaching evolution in violation of state law.