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John T. Scopes, the Glossary

John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970) was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools.^[1]

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Schoolteachers from Tennessee
Scopes Trial
Socialist Party of America politicians from Kentucky

American Civil Liberties Union

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit human rights organization founded in 1920.

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American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Arthur Garfield Hays

Arthur Garfield Hays (December 12, 1881 – December 14, 1954) was an American lawyer and champion of civil liberties issues, best known as a co-founder and general counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union and for participating in notable cases including the Sacco and Vanzetti trial.

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge (French: Baton Rouge or Bâton-Rouge,; Batonrouj) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Beeville, Texas

Beeville is a city in Bee County, Texas, United States.

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Bowling Green, Kentucky

Bowling Green is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Warren County, Kentucky, United States.

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Butler Act

The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the book of Genesis account of mankind's origin. John T. Scopes and Butler Act are Scopes Trial.

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Civic Biology

A Civic Biology: Presented in Problems (usually referred to as just Civic Biology) was a biology textbook written by George William Hunter, published in 1914. John T. Scopes and Civic Biology are Scopes Trial.

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Clarence Darrow

Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer who became famous in the 19th century for high profile representations of trade union causes, and in the 20th century for several criminal matters, including the Leopold and Loeb murder trial, the Scopes "monkey" trial, and the Ossian Sweet defense.

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Coach (sport)

An athletic coach is a person coaching in sport, involved in the direction, instruction, and training of a sports team or athlete.

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Danville, Illinois

Danville is a city in and the county seat of Vermilion County, Illinois, United States.

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Dayton, Tennessee

Dayton is a city in and the county seat of Rhea County, Tennessee, United States. John T. Scopes and Dayton, Tennessee are Scopes Trial.

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Doubleday (publisher)

Doubleday is an American publishing company.

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Dudley Field Malone

Dudley Field Malone (June 3, 1882 – October 5, 1950) was an American attorney, politician, liberal activist, and actor.

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Dundurn Press

Dundurn Press is one of the largest Canadian-owned book publishing companies of adult fiction and non-fiction.

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Ed Begley

Edward James Begley Sr. (March 25, 1901 – April 28, 1970) was an American actor of theatre, radio, film, and television.

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Fredric March

Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Geology

Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.

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George Rappleyea

George Washington Rappleyea (July 4, 1894 – August 29, 1966) was an American metallurgical engineer and the manager of the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company in Dayton, Tennessee.

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George William Hunter

George William Hunter (June 29, 1863, Williamsburg, West Virginia – February 4, 1948) was an American writer.

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Grafton Green

Grafton Green (August 12, 1872 – January 27, 1947) was an American jurist who served on the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1910 to 1947, including more than 23 years as chief justice.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Henry Holt and Company

Henry Holt and Company is an American book-publishing company based in New York City.

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Herbert Hicks

Herbert S. Hicks (born 1872) was an American lawyer and state legislator in Illinois. John T. Scopes and Herbert Hicks are Scopes Trial.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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Human evolution

Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family that includes all the great apes.

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Inherit the Wind (1960 film)

Inherit the Wind is a 1960 American drama film directed by Stanley Kramer and based on the 1955 play of the same name written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. John T. Scopes and Inherit the Wind (1960 film) are Scopes Trial.

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Inherit the Wind (play)

Inherit the Wind is an American play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, which debuted in Dallas under the direction of Margo Jones in 1955. John T. Scopes and Inherit the Wind (play) are Scopes Trial.

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John Randolph Neal Jr.

John Randolph Neal Jr. (September 17, 1876 – November 23, 1959) was an American attorney, law professor, politician, and activist, best known for his role as chief counsel during the 1925 Scopes Trial, and as an advocate for the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Kentucky's at-large congressional district

For the 73rd Congress (March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1935), Kentucky did not use a district election format, but instead, elected all representatives in a statewide, at-large manner.

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Louisiana State University Press

The Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press) is a university press at Louisiana State University.

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Mildred Seydell

Mildred Seydell (born Mildred Rutherford Woolley; March 21, 1889 – February 20, 1988) was an American pioneering journalist in Georgia.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Paducah, Kentucky

Paducah is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States.

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Paul Muni

Paul Muni (born Frederich Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund; September 22, 1895 – August 25, 1967) was an American stage and film actor from Chicago.

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Pennzoil

Pennzoil is an American motor oil brand currently owned by Shell plc.

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Rhea County High School

Rhea County High School is a high school in Evensville, Tennessee.

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Salem, Illinois

Salem is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, Illinois, United States.

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Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara (Santa Bárbara, meaning) is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat.

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Scopes trial

The Scopes trial, formally The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. John T. Scopes and Scopes trial are Scopes Trial.

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Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreveport is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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The Socialist Party of America (SPA) was a socialist political party in the United States formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America who had split from the main organization in 1899.

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Spencer Tracy

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American actor.

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Subornation of perjury

In American law, Scots law, and under the laws of some English-speaking Commonwealth nations, subornation of perjury is the crime of persuading or permitting a person to commit perjury, which is the swearing of a false oath to tell the truth in a legal proceeding, whether spoken or written.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Scopes

Also known as John Scopes, John T Scopes, John Thomas Scopes.

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Schoolteachers from Tennessee

Scopes Trial

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