Ed Sebesta, President of Lesbian & Gay Associated Engineers and Scientists (LGAES) (left) and a pastor from the Los Gatos Christian Church on Camden Avenue. A sign is partially obscured from full view, and reads: April 6, 1925, John Thomas Scopes...evolution." See Ted Sahl, "From Closet to Community", (2002), p. 155-156. The Scopes Trail, also known as the "Monkey Trial, took place in Tennessee in 1925. It was the first legal battle contesting the teaching of evolution versus creation in public schools. See: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/evolut.htm. Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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