Today in history
Subtitle: May 5
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: Trials, litigation; Evolution (Biology); Study and teaching; Law and legislation; Cinco de Mayo (Mexican holiday); Social life and customs; Puebla, Battle of, Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico, 1862
Other titles: May 5
Description: Presents a discussion of the May 5, 1925 arrest of high school science teacher John Scopes for teaching evolution in one of Tennessee's public schools and the highly publicized trial that followed. Also features an account of Mexican troops defending the town of Puebla against the French on May 5, 1862. Cinco de Mayo has become a day of celebration of Hispanic culture with singing, dancing, food, and other amusements.
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Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: [The Scopes trial]; title: Cinco de Mayo.