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Inside and outside of the courtroom, Clarence Darrow did the best he could to turn the American of his age into a more compassionate society. His victories and some, like Scopes after it was quashed in the Tennessee Supreme Court, are moral victories for science, racial equity, and civil liberties still capture the imagination of our time and are frightened with cultural significance .

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An American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state funded school.

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Darrow had begun as a common civil lawyer. Even in Chicago his first jobs included appointment as the city's corporation counsel in 1890 and then as general attorney to the Chicago and North Western Railway. In 1894, however, he began what would be his main career for the next twenty years, which is labor law.

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The trial had been broadcasted over the radio and Darrow's blistering cross- examination of Bryan hurting the fundamentalist.

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Clarence Darrow was born in Kinsman, Ohio, on April 18, 1857. He had seven siblings. His father, Amirus Darrow, was a Unitarian minister who eventually gave up his creed and lapsed into agnosticism.

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Clarence Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union. He was among the first attorneys to be called a "labor lawyer." He also was known for defending teenager thrill killers in the Scopes Monkey Trial.