It would be interesting to know if the State of Tennessee knew when it passed “the Butler Bill” on March 13, 1925 that the world would soon be watching. House Bill 185, offered by State Representative John Washington Butler pictured here, prohibited teaching evolution in public schools and a teacher in Dayton, TN named John Scopes decided he’d teach it anyway after answering a newspaper ad placed in local papers by the ACLU. In the following July the “Scopes Monkey Trial” was in full gear.
