In 1925, when he volunteered to defend John Scopes' right to teach evolution, Clarence Darrow had already reached the top of his profession. The year before, in a sensational trial in Chicago, he ...

He was the Attorney for the Damned, the Great Defender, the champion of free thought who skewered biblical literalism at the Scopes Monkey Trial and the master courtroom rhetorician whose three-day ...

Clarence Darrow was a trial attorney made famous for his defense of a Tennessee educator accused of breaking a state law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools. Bettmann / Corbis Clarence ...

Patrick Spradlin portrays defense attorney Clarence Darrow in the one-man play, Clarence Darrow. The play will tour Iowa in October. The performances, presented by the Iowa Labor History Society, aim ...

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A midwestern childhood -- A bum profession -- Becoming the "attorney for the damned" -- Fighting for the people in and out of court -- Labor's lyrical lawyer -- In defense of dynamiters -- Darrow ...