Name: Key Moments from the History of Education in the U.S. - Drunk History
Uploaded: 2021-01-27T20:50:02.000Z
Duration: 21 min 45 s
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We are (beep) nine visions of black excellence.

We will go to school and we'll change the world.

Today we're going to talk about the Scopes Monkey Trial.

The 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, the economy was tanking.

One day he saw an open letter in the newspaper.

offers to represent any teacher that wants

Hey, if someone locally challenged this law,

and it could help the economy in our (beep) little town

George Rappleyea, who I want to call Appleyea,

because it's the only way I can remember his name.

The ACLU, they hire the greatest defense attorney,

Public schools should teach science and facts.

for the Tennessee state statute, which he inspired.

On the first day of the Scope Monkey Trial

why does that not sound like I'm saying it right?

Williams Jenning Bryan says to the court,

people were able to hear a trial on their radios.

There was a point in the trial in which Clarence Darrow

asked scientists to explain the theory of evolution.

But the judge in the Scopes Monkey Trial was John Raulston.

And he believed, "I have been called on by God

"So I don't care what all these scientists have to say.

So Clarence Darrow decided, "Okay, all my witnesses,

"So I'll ask someone who's an expert on the Bible

"I know you're on the other side of this case,

"but why don't you go on the witness stand

Now, Williams Jenning Bryan was so excited about this.

Now the judge didn't want him to do this.

When Clarence Darrow puts William Jennings Bryan

"Do you believe all the stories of the Bible literally?"

And the first answer of William Jennings Bryan is,

And then all of a sudden there are other people

William Jennings Bryan gets flustered and says,

"Well, I leave that up to you agnostics to find out."

So you're not interpreting the Bible literally?

to destroy William Jennings Bryan on facts.

- [Derek] Are you still spinning or how do you feel?

I feel like I think I know where I'm going,

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Key Moments from the History of Education in the U.S. - Drunk History

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