1925 CE: THE SCOPES TRIAL

…a.k.a. “The [Scopes] Monkey Trial”

Dayton, Tennessee: The Theory of Evolution loses in its bid for a “seat at the table.”

Famed civil libertarian lawyer Clarence Darrow, for the defense of the teaching, as well, of Evolution (in Tennessee schools) v. famed statesman–lawyer William Jennings Bryan advocating the exclusive teaching of Creationism (in Tennessee schools)

The famous trial was later made infamous by the play (1955) and film (1960, 1965, 1988, and 1999) Inherit the Wind, which attacked assaults on intellectual freedom, in general.