January 10, 1925
Dayton, Tennessee, USA
John Scopes for teaching Evolution
I'm assuming you mean the Scopes Trial, which took place in a small town of Tennessee in 1925.
The Scopes Trial, formally known as "The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes" took place in Dayton, Tennessee.
In the Scopes Trial!
John T. Raulston was the judge in the Scopes trial.
There was a great deal of interest in the Scopes trial which took place in Tennessee in 1925. The trial dealt with the right to teach evolution in the public schools. Scopes was convicted on this charge and fined, but there was much ridicule towards the state for passing the law in the first place. The trial was a great embarrassment to the state and probably kept other fundamentalist states from passing similar laws.
After the Scopes trial in 1925, state legislatures enacted more laws mandating the teaching of evolution in schools. However, anti-evolution laws persisted in some states until they were struck down by the Supreme Court in the 1960s. The trial helped shape public opinion and the legal landscape regarding the teaching of evolution in schools.
Because John Scopes was teaching about the evolution of humans from apes (monkeys)
Dayton, Tennessee July 10 through July 21, 1925.
The Scopes trial refers to the "Scopes-Monkey" trial in which a high school Science teacher in Tennessee violated the Butler Act that made it unlawful to teach evolution in schools. He was found guilty.
John Scopes for teaching Evolution