Evolution in Tennessee
Berryman, Clifford Kennedy,
1869-1949
artist
still image
graphic
still image
Editorial cartoons-American.
Drawings.
xxu
monographic
1925
eng
1 drawing.
A then & now cartoon. The first panel, labeled "Five Months Ago," shows a scruffy mountain man labeled "Dayton" asleep against the trunk of a mighty oak. The second panel, labeled "Today," shows the same man as a giant, all spruced up in a new suit and hat, speaking into an enormous microphone, saying "This is the life!" He is surrounded by photographers and reporters. The mighty oak has been reduced to a tiny tree. In July 1925, John T. Scopes was tried for violating a Tennessee state law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the public schools. He was defended by the famous criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow and prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan. The small town of Dayton, Tennessee, became the center of a media circus as it was overrun by reporters, religious fundamentalists, and curious tourists. Scopes lost the case and was fined $100, but his conviction was later overturned on a technicality.
No known restrictions on publication.
Title from item.
(DLC/PP-1945:R1.149)
Probably published in: The Evening star (Washington, D.C.)
Scopes, John Thomas
Trials, litigation, etc
Judicial proceedings
Tennessee
Dayton
1920-1930
Then & now comparisons
1920-1930
Evolution
1920-1930
CD 1 - Berryman (C.K.), no. 526
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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Cartoon Drawings (Library of Congress)
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