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[/url][url=https://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/john-scopes-arrested-for-teaching-evolution-may-5-1925-106325]John Scopes arrested for teaching evolution, May 5, 1925 - POLITICO

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The jury took nine minutes to return a guilty verdict. Scopes was fined $100. The Tennessee State Supreme Court, however, acquitted him on a technicality while upholding the constitutionality of the state law.

In 1967, Tennessee lawmakers overturned the statute, thereby legalizing discussions of evolutionary concepts in the state’s public schools.