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Keith, Jeanette – 1995
In the summer of 1925, national attention focused on Dayton, Tennessee, where John T. Scopes was on trial for teaching evolution in violation of state law. The Tennessee "monkey trial" symbolized the confrontation of modern, secular, urban America with conservative, religious, rural America. Although urban journalists and social critics…
Descriptors: Community Control, Culture Conflict, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
