The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of man's origin. It was enacted as Tennessee Code Annotated Title 49 (Education) Section 1922. The law also prevented the teaching of the evolution of man from what it referred to as lower orders of animals in place of the Biblical account.
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