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Milford talk to cover spectacle, impact of Scopes trial

By Brian Trompeter
Posted 4/2/26

The Scopes monkey trial riveted the public’s attention 101 years ago, with its famous legal combatants, a showboating judge and an educator who agreed to challenge Tennessee’s law prohibiting the teaching of human evolution in its public schools.

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