Some 40 years later, a Tennessee science teacher was fired for violating the law. The teacher sued and was re-hired, but he continued the fight to have the legislation repealed. And it was, in 1967.
Attorney Clarence Darrow consults with Judge Raulston about procedure in the Tennessee courts during the trial of John T. Scopes. Credit and source: New York Daily News/Getty Images
On this day in 1925, the state of Tennessee passed a law prohibiting the teaching of human evolution in schools. This was - unsuccessfully - challenged in the Scopes Monkey Trial the next year.
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