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In popular culture
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Background and origins
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Media coverage and publicity
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Aftermath and legacy
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- Citation
- None
- Court
- Criminal Court of Tennessee
- Decided
- July 21, 1925; 101 years ago (July 21, 1925)
- Full case name
- The State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes
- Judge sitting
- John Tate Raulston
- Subsequent action
- Scopes v. State (1926)
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Overview
- Legal case
- John T. Scopes
- Butler Act
- Tennessee
- Human evolution
- Effort to challenge the constitutionality of the law Test case (law)
- Dayton, Tennessee
- Incriminated himself Self-incrimination
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Fine Fine (penalty)
- Verdict
- William Jennings Bryan
- Secretary of state United States Secretary of State
- Clarence Darrow
- Fundamentalist–modernist controversy
- Modernists Christianity in the 19th century
- Fundamentalists Christian fundamentalism
- Bible
- Mass media Mass media in the United States
- Temptation Eve
- Cain Cain and Abel
- Ancient Egypt
- Serpent Serpent (Bible)
Background and origins
- Charles Darwin
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Evolution
- Natural selection
- Common ancestor Last universal common ancestor
- Jointly published On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection
- On the Origin of Species
- Creation narrative Genesis creation narrative
- Book of Genesis
- Inerrant Biblical inerrancy
- Should be interpreted literally Biblical literalism
- Universe
- Social Darwinism
- Presbyterian Presbyterianism
- John Washington Butler
- World Christian Fundamentals Association
- Austin Peay
- George Rappleyea
- Walter White Walter White (Tennessee politician)
- Sue K. Hicks
- George William Hunter
- Civic Biology: Presented in Problems Civic Biology
- Scientific racism
- Eugenics
- John T. Raulston
- The Baltimore Sun
- Tom Stewart Tom Stewart (politician)
- District attorney
- H. G. Wells
- John R. Neal John Randolph Neal, Jr.
Proceedings
Appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee
- Prohibition Prohibition in the United States
- Constitutional right
- Free speech
- Tennessee State Constitution
- General Assembly Tennessee General Assembly
- Grafton Green
- England Church of England
- Scotland Church of Scotland
- Legal technicality
- Nolle prosequi
- L. D. Smith
- Retrial
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Epperson v. Arkansas
- Establishment Clause of the First Amendment
Media coverage and publicity
- H. L. Mencken
- Radio Old-time radio
- Edward J. Larson
- Pulitzer Prize for History
- Publicity stunt
- The New York Times
- London
- Telegraphers Telegraphy
- WGN WGN (AM)
- Clear-channel Clear-channel station
- Trial of the Century
- Murder trial of O. J. Simpson
- Heavily slanted Media bias in the United States
- Babbits Babbitt (novel)
- Creationists Creationism
- Play Inherit the Wind (play)
- Movie Inherit the Wind (1960 film)
- Ku Klux Klan
- Commonweal Commonweal (magazine)
- Martyrdom Martyr
- Time Time (magazine)
- Life Life (magazine)
- Literary Digest
- American Experience
- L. Sprague de Camp
- The Great Monkey Trial
- Leopold and Loeb
- Street preachers Open-air preaching
- T.T. Martin
- Trained Animal training
Aftermath and legacy
- Finding truth Epistemology
- Religion and science Relationship between religion and science
- Randall Balmer
- Christian fundamentalists Christian fundamentalist
- Voting bloc
- Christian right
- South Carolina
- Oklahoma
- Kentucky
- North Northern United States
- South Southern United States
- Mississippi
- Arkansas
- United States Supreme Court
- Establishment Clause of the First Amendment Establishment Clause
- Creation Research Society
- Sputnik
- Cold War
- Creation science
- Wedge Strategy
- California
- Michigan
- Whig history
- Biological Sciences Curriculum Study
- National Defense Education Act
- Soviet Union
- American Institute of Biological Sciences
In popular culture
- Jerome Lawrence
- Robert Edwin Lee
- McCarthy trials
- McCarthyism
- Intellectual freedom
- Stanley Kramer
- Spencer Tracy
- Fredric March
- Contrition
- Melvyn Douglas
- Ed Begley
- 1965 Inherit the Wind (1965 film)
- Jason Robards
- Kirk Douglas
- 1988 Inherit the Wind (1988 film)
- Jack Lemmon
- George C. Scott
- 1999 Inherit the Wind (1999 film)
- Bryan College
- Peter Goodchild
- L.A. Theatre Works
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Audiofile AudioFile (magazine)
- BBC
- Neil Patrick Harris
- Ed Asner
- The Simpsons
- Lisa the Skeptic
- Cardiff Giant
- Piltdown Man
Commemoration
Bibliography
- ISBN ISBN (identifier)
- Doi Doi (identifier)
- ISSN ISSN (identifier)
- JSTOR JSTOR (identifier)
- PMID PMID (identifier)
- Fides et Historia
- Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion Summer for the Gods
- OCLC OCLC (identifier)
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related to Bibliography · 119
Scopes trial → Adam, America's Continuing Debate Over, American High School Biology, American History, American Intellectuals, American Schools, Antievolution Movement, Basic Books, Battle, Bedford/St, Beginning, Biology, Black, Bloomsbury Academic, Brief History, Burton, Camp, Center, Company, Constance Areson
related to Further reading · 92
Scopes trial → About, Adam, American Experience, American Schools, Anti-Evolution Trial, Antievolution Movement, Archived, Article, Atheism, Austin, Battles, Brenda, Cape Town, Casey Scott, Chicago, Cincinnati, Clarence Darrow's Two Great, Cline, Complete Stenographic Report, Court Trial
related to External links · 49
Scopes trial → Archived, Archived December, August, Bryan's, California State University Dominguez, Charlotte, Closing Statement, Complete, Dayton, Douglas Linder, Hills, Human Timeline, Interactive, Internet ArchivePapers, John Scopes, Jonathan, July, June, Kansas City Law SchoolBryan, Marks
related to Media coverage and publicity · 35
Scopes trial → America's Continuing Debate Over, American, Britain, Century, Chicago's WGN, Dayton, Edward, From The Salem Republican, Gods, History, It, June, Larson, Like, London, Mencken, Monkey Trial, More, Pulitzer Prize, Quin Ryan
related to Music · 34
Scopes trial → After All, Ain't No Bugs On, B-side, Billy Murray, Bruce Springsteen, Bryan's Last Fight, Carson Robison, Down, For, If, International Novelty Orchestra, Love Express Tour, Me, Monkey, Monkey Biz-Ness, Monkey Business, Other, Part, Part Man, Part Monkey
related to Stage, film, and television · 34
Scopes trial → Although, Brady, Bryan, Christian, Darrow, Dayton, Despite, Drummond, Ed Begley, Fredric March, George, Henry Drummond, In, Inherit, It, Jack Lemmon, Jason Robards, Jerome Lawrence, Kirk Douglas, Lawrence
related to Anti-evolution movement · 24
Scopes trial → After Scopes, Arizona, Arkansas, At, Before, Butler Act, By, California, Dayton, Epperson, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, In, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nearly, North, Oklahoma, Scopes, South
related to Creation versus evolution debate · 22
Scopes trial → Adam Shapiro, American, American Christianity, Author David Goetz, Bryan, Bryan's, Christian, Christians, Historian Randall Balmer, However, Inherit, Instead, It, Mark Edwards, Most, Protestants, Rather, Scopes, Shapiro, The
related to Teaching of science · 19
Scopes trial → ACLU, Bryan Bible League, Butler, Christian Faith, Defenders, George Gaylord Simpson, Grabiner, However, Hunter, Miller, Of, Scopes, Some, The, The Scopes, This, Though, United States, William Jennings Bryan's
related to Commemoration · 17
Scopes trial → Between, Biblical, Bryan, Bryan College, Christian, Dayton, Historic Places, Located, May, National Historic Landmark, National Park Service, National Register, Rhea County Heritage, Scopes Trial Museum, The Rhea County Courthouse, This, William Jennings Bryan
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scopes trial | Citation | None | 1.00 | infobox |
| Scopes trial | Court | Criminal Court of Tennessee | 1.00 | infobox |
| Scopes trial | Decided | July 21, 1925; 101 years ago (July 21, 1925) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Scopes trial | Full case name | The State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes | 1.00 | infobox |
| Scopes trial | Judge sitting | John Tate Raulston | 1.00 | infobox |
| Scopes trial | Subsequent action | Scopes v. State (1926) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Scopes trial | Verdict | Guilty (overturned on technicality) | 1.00 | infobox |
| the | instance of | It was Mencken who provided the trial with its most colorful labels | 0.80 | text |
| Scopes trial | related to Anti-evolution movement | The | 0.60 | section |
| Scopes trial | related to Anti-evolution movement | Arizona | 0.60 | section |
| Scopes trial | related to Anti-evolution movement | California | 0.60 | section |
| Scopes trial | related to Anti-evolution movement | Before | 0.60 | section |
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Nodes219
Edges218
Triples463
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.009132
Components1
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