The subject of racism in State v. Scopes (1925) has been presented by supporters of William Jennings Bryan as being unfair to the three time unsuccessful candidate for president of the United ...

Finally, the judge called a halt to the spectacle. The next day the jury pronounced John Scopes guilty. William Jennings Bryan had won the case, but history would not look kindly on his last crusade.

The Scopes trial was one of the first, if not the very first, to be dubbed "the trial of the century." And why not? It pitted ...

Defense attorney Clarence Darrow, standing, interrogates prosecution attorney William Jennings Bryan, seated at left in bow tie, during what came to be known as the Scopes Monkey Trial ...

DAYTON, Tenn., July 27, 1925 (UP) - William Jennings Bryan, the crusader - grim of feature in death as he was in life - rests today in the camp of his friends and followers here, the victim of his ...

Scopes agreed to become the defendant. The trial might have attracted little attention outside the world of constitutional law were it not for the two famous lawyers who volunteered to help with the ...

The millions of words written about the “Trial of the Century” (there have been several given that title) law reviews, documentaries, Broadway plays, and movies (“Inherit the Wind”) never seems to end ...

Bryan passed away in Dayton five days after the conclusion of the Scopes trial. He was 65. The United Press dispatch from Dayton read: “William Jennings Bryan, the crusader — grim of feature ...

DAYTON, Tenn., July 27, 1925 (UP) - William Jennings Bryan, the crusader - grim of feature in death as he was in life - rests today in the camp of his friends and followers here, the victim of his ...

Before Woodrow Wilson became the standard bearer for the Democratic Party, that honor belonged to William Jennings Bryan ... in the 1925 trial of John Scopes, a Tennessee schoolteacher accused ...

Bryan passed away in Dayton five days after the conclusion of the Scopes trial. He was 65. The United Press dispatch from Dayton read: "William Jennings Bryan, the crusader — grim of feature in ...