1920's Government and Politics | Tennessee Laws Regarding the Teaching of Evolution

"Chapter No. 27, House Bill No. 185"; "Chapter No. 237, House Bill No. 48"

Laws

By: Tennessee House of Representatives

Date: March 13, 1925, and March 13, 1967

Source: Chapter No. 27, House Bill No. 185. Public Acts of the State of Tennessee Passed by the Sixty-Fourth General Assembly, 1925.; Chapter No. 237, House Bill No. 48. Public Acts of the State of Tennessee Passed by the Eighty-Fifth General Assembly, 1967.; Available online at http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/ten... ; website home page: http://www.law.umkc.edu/ (accessed January 28,
2003).

About the Author: In 1925, state representative John Butler sponsored Tennessee's anti-evolution act. Four years earlier, Butler had listened to a Baptist preacher warn the...