Who is George W. Rappleyea from Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion and what is their importance?

George W. Rappleyea was the manager at one of Dayton's mines. He saw the ACLU ad for a schoolteacher willing to help challenge the Tennessee statute and saw it as a chance to strike down the law. Rappleyea also made the first call to the ACLU about Dayton's willingness to help.