That freedom stems from the ruling in a 1969 case in which a group of students wore black armbands to school in order to protest U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Their Des Moines high school ...

Mary Beth Tinker and John Tinker display ... such as by protesting the war by wearing black armbands. But this symbolic move carried consequences. In December 1965, when a group of teenagers in Des ...

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 d ...