William Jennings Bryan was part of the prosecution team during the Scopes Monkey Trial.
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The Scopes Monkey trial pertained to a high school teacher teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in defiance of the law that prohibited that.
Clarence Darrow
John Scopes was a school teacher in Tennessee that illegally taught the theory of evolution in a public school. He was arrested, tried and convicted.
The scopes monkey trial was about whether a teacher could teach evolution in public schools. Mr. Scopes was a science teacher who wanted to teach Charles Darwin's book "On the Origin of Species."
The law prohibiting the teaching of evolution was upheld.