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Mary Beth Tinker, one of the students who participated in the protest, recalled the unpleasant reaction to the events in the Des Moines Independent Community School District.

A silent protest led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling that defined students' free speech rights. The court's 1969 landmark decision in Tinker v. Des Moines affirmed that "students do not leave ...

Mary Beth Tinker, a key plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, delivered a lecture highlighting the connection between student free speech and racial justice movements, ...

1969's Tinker v. Des Moines court ruling concerned three Iowa high school students who, in 1965, wore black armbands to protest the Vietnam War. School officials had contrived to shut down the ...

Half a century later, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) remains the Supreme Court’s authoritative ruling on symbolic speech and the First Amendment rights of K-12 ...

The landmark Supreme Court decision Tinker v. Des Moines secured students’ right to free speech at school.

In 1965, when Mary Beth Tinker was an eighth-grader at Harding Junior High in Des Moines, she and five other students, including her brother, John, 15, wore black bands on their arms to protest ...