In the 1960s and 1970s, high school student-led activism successfully reshaped school districts across the country.

The court’s 1969 landmark decision in Tinker v. Des Moines affirmed that “students do not leave their freedoms of speech and expression at the school door.” Mary Beth Tinker, one of the ...

Mary Beth Tinker and John Tinker display two black armbands. The children, both students at North High School, were suspended from classes along with three other students for wearing the bands to ...