Video: 'Scopes Battles the Butler Act: The Fight for Evolution Theory - Decades TV Network'

(Tuesday, May 5, 1925) — Schoolteacher John T. Scopes, 24, was charged today for violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.

Video: 'This Man Was Tried in Tennessee for Teaching Evolution'

He would be tried in a case known as the Scopes Trial.