Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation—a new story and book by Brenda Wineapple about the Scopes Trial of 1925. It is dramatic and sensationally important for the understanding of the culture in the 1920s. One hundred years, it is still debatable.
I take you to Robinson's Drugstore. It is early May, 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. There’s a meeting there over glass top tables—Brenda gives us these wonderful details—cans of Coca-Cola with cherry flavor, and they’re discussing a law recently passed in the legislature in Tennessee and then again by the Senate in Tennessee, becoming a law.
That law is at the center of what was joked to be “the monkey trials.” What is that law? Why is it brought forward by a man named Butler?
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