November 12, 1968

The Epperson v. Arkansas case was brought to a close when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Arkansas’s Initiated Act Number 1 unconstitutional. The act, which allowed the state to ban the teaching of evolution in public schools, was challenged by Susan Epperson, a biology teacher at Central High School in Little Rock (Pulaski County). The case was two years old by the time it reached the Supreme Court, having passed lower courts that each gave a different ruling.