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

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

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The Jerry R. Tompkins Papers: The Scopes 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 for his book "D-Days at Dayton" and on the Epperson v. Arkansas case in the late 1960s for numerous articles on the case.

2 ft., 3 in.

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University of Texas Libraries

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Scopes, John Thomas

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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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