The "Trial of the Century" (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)

We report on state/church victories and challenges in Arkansas, South Carolina, Texas, Morocco, Minnesota and Florida. 

Then, we hear Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Ed Larson (Summer for the Gods) tell us the story of the 1925 Scopes Trial, the “Trial of the Century,” pitting science against religion in Dayton, Tenn., 100 years ago.

Interview: 

https://ffrf.org/news/freethought-radio/freethought-today-september-4-2025/

Scopes Trial Centennial: Ed Larson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6e7wvy3Pv0

 

John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, May 5, 1925 - POLITICO

On this day in 1925, Tennessee authorities arrested John Scopes, a substitute high school teacher, for teaching evolution. They charged him with having violated a newly enacted law that criminalized the teaching of human evolution in the state’s public schools.....

https://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/john-scopes-arrested-for-teaching-evolution-may-5-1925-106325