The unlucky face that was paired with the ACLU’s efforts to take down the Butler Bill was John Thomas Scopes, a new, young, and popular professor who travelled to Tennessee for a teaching position. He, too, saw the Butler Bill as “a threat to freedom” (25), and agreed to become the test case and stepping stone for the ACLU. It was during this time that the issues of science versus religion and educational restrictions blended together to form one great, single conflict. Once the court case hit the news and was broadcasted throughout the country, bigger names began to emerge and offer their assistance. Bryan wanted the opportunity to represent the fundamentalists, the antievolutionists who wanted to keep evolution out of schools and away from
