Tompkins, Jerry R., Papers: The ScopesTrial and the Epperson Case Records 1951-1998

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Tompkins, Jerry R., Papers: The ScopesTrial and the Epperson Case Records 1951-1998

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The Jerry R. Tompkins Papers: TheScopes Trial and Epperson Case Records, 1951-1998, consist of research notes,correspondence, photographs, audiotapes, legal agreements, royalty statements,scrapbooks of evolution articles, articles on evolution in schools, galley proofs,and books, which document Tompkins’ research on the John T. Scopes Trial of 1925 forhis book and on the case in the late 1960s for numerousarticles on the case. D-Days at Dayton Epperson v. Arkansas

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Scopes, John Thomas

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John Thomas Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools....

Tompkins, Jerry R.

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Born in 1931, Jerry R. Tompkins is the son of Robert Alva Tompkins (1899-1997) and Hazel Chase Tompkins (1905-1989) and the nephew of Mary Henrietta Chase (1908-1997) and Frances Tompkins Hall. Tompkins earned a B.A. in political science from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, and trained as a Presbyterian minister at the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, Texas. In the 1960s and 1970s, Tompkins worked as a Presbyterian Church minister in Louisiana and Arkansas, retu...

Epperson, Susan.

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