Demands for the statues of slave owners, slave traders and confederate leaders in the United States to be torn down have been on
e of the key points of the ongoing #blacklivesmatter protests, with some people believing this to be an act of erasing history while others believing that the statues glorify individual whose deeds were abhorrent and not worthy of celebration.
William Jennings Bryan ... three-time candidate for the US presidency ... prosecuted Scopes. Clarence Darrow defended him. Scopes was convicted of having taught human evolution, and was fined $100, but the verdict was overturned later.
