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Ironic that the city of Dayton, Tenn., was the site of the Scopes trial, something one feels the current Dayton, Wash., anti-library protesters would approve of.

One hourlong episode will focus on the 1925 Scopes trial, in which a science teacher was prosecuted for informing students about Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Public education has long been a battlefield in the U.S., from the Scopes trial to desegregation to climate change.

McMinn County’s banning of Spiegelman’s mice comes almost a century after Tennessee tried to ban Darwin’s monkeys in the Scopes trial.

The ensuing Scopes trial subsequently became the subject of a landmark film named “Inherit the Wind.”