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  • Preacher on a soapbox
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    Preachers; Public speaking; Crowds; Spectators
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    A crowd listens in the streets to a preacher giving a soap box oratory.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • J.W. Howard Petition
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    Petitions; Religious fundamentalism; Creation; Biology; Evolution; Sunday schools; Methodist churches; Correspondence
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    A one page, typed petition to Governor Austin Peay in support of Tennessee's anti-evolution law. The letter is on the letterhead of the Sunday school teacher, J.W. Howard.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Maxwell Support Letter
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    Religious fundamentalism; Evolution; Creation; Biology; Correspondence
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    A short one page, typed letter from A.L. Maxwell of Los Angeles, California. His company's letterhead is included in the letter.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Joe Mendi performs
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    Children; Chimpanzees; Apes; Trained animals; Pianos; Monkeys
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    A trained chimpanzee named Joe Mendi performs for a group of school children outside the home of Mrs. F. Robinson.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • A monkey meeting
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    Caricatures; Evolution; Monkeys; Correspondence; Public speaking
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    Caricature of a politician addressing an audience of monkeys from a cracker box platform. The monkeys beg for food while the largest of them warns the others to "pay no attention to that boob, he thinks you can vote." Accompanying the caricature...
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Scopes Trial "Monkey Business" Cartoon
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    Monkeys; Organ grinders; Cartoons (Commentary); Trials, litigation, etc.
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    Cartoon showing an organ grinder as Dayton, Tennessee, the organ as the Scopes Trial, and the monkey collecting all of the publicity and money.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Clarence Darrow's Arrival in Dayton
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    Lawyers; Arrivals & departures; Men
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    Clarence Darrow's arrival in Dayton. John Scopes is shown welcoming Darrow. Also shown is John R. Neal.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton
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    Courthouses; Clock towers
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    Courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Why Dayton of all Places
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    Pamphlets
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    Crowd gathers as the first shipment of booklets titled, "Why Dayton of all Places," by F. Robinson and W. Morgan arrive in Dayton.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Crowd in front of Robinson's Drugtore in Dayton
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    Crowds; Judicial proceedings; Drugstores
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    Crowd of people gathering in front of Robinson's Drugstore during the Scopes trial.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Sue K. Hicks interview -- part C
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    Trials, litigation, etc.
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    Excerpt from a video interview with Sue K. Hicks in which he gives his impressions of Clarence Darrow.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Sue K. Hicks interview -- part A
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    Trials, litigation, etc.
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    Excerpt of a video interview with Sue K. Hicks admitting that it was decided up front to try the case and that Scopes gave his permission to be part of it.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Sue K. Hicks interview -- part E
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    Trials, litigation, etc.
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    Excerpt of a video interview with Sue K. Hicks in which he discusses the ramifications of the Scopes Trial on education and on the reputation of the state.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Sue K. Hicks interview -- part D
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    Trials, litigation, etc.
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    Excerpt of a video interview with Sue K. Hicks in which he discusses the testimony of William Jennings Bryan that was later stricken from the record.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Sue K. Hicks interview -- part B
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    Trials, litigation, etc.
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    Excerpt of a video interview with Sue K. Hicks in which he gives his impressions of William Jennings Bryan.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Sue K. Hicks interview -- part F
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    Trials, litigation, etc.
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    Excerpt of a video interview with Sue K. Hicks in which he remembers William Jennings Bryan telling he and his brother, Herbert, that they would probably live long enough to see whether or not evolution is true.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Sue K. Hicks interview -- part G
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    Trials, litigation, etc.
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    Excerpt of a video interview with Sue K. Hicks in which he talks about how William Bryan Jennings, nephew of William Jennings Bryan, helped him get a position in Florida after the Scopes Trial was over.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • State Supreme Court Opinion of Scopes Trial
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    Trials, litigation, etc.
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    Index and Opinion from the Tennessee State Supreme Court case regarding the Scopes Trial of July 1925 questioning the teaching of evolution in public schools. The opinion, filed in January 1927, dismissed the case; on a technicality, adding...
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • Dayton Leaders in Robinson's Drugstore
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    Drugstores; Men
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    Interior view of Robinson's Drugstore. Shown are George W. Rappelyea, Walter White, Clay Green, F. Robinson and Owen Wasson.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial
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  • John T. Scopes and his father
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    Men; Porches; Lodging houses
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    John Scopes and his father sitting on the porch of Bailey's Boarding House.
  • The Scopes 'Monkey' Trial

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