On July 10, 1925, the trial of Tennessee teacher John T. Scopes opens, with Clarence Darrow appearing for the defense and William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution.
Quote Of The Day
"Education, you know, means broadening, advancing; and if you limit a teacher to only one side of anything, the whole country will eventually have only one thought, be one individual. I believe in teaching every aspect of every problem or theory." John T. Scopes
Image Of The Day
Photograph of John Scopes taken one month before the Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial. From the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Rotated, cropped, and cleaned by Kaldari. By Smithsonian Institution Photographed by Watson Davis, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org