Long Beach City College presents Inherit the Wind
Inspired by the Scopes “Monkey” Trial of 1925, Inherit the Wind tells the story of Bertram Cates, a young science teacher put on trial for teaching his sophomore class about Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of
Species. More than a simple courtroom drama or a debate about evolution versus creationism, the play
is a meditation on freedom of speech, a cornerstone of what it means to be an American.