Tinker v. Des Moines is a historic Supreme Court ruling from ... in December 1965 when she and a group of students decided to wear black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam. The school ...

Thirteen-year-old Mary Beth Tinker didn’t know she ... and the war in Vietnam continued, as did the Tinkers’ case against the Des Moines public school system. In 1966, the ACLU first argued ...

In discussing the 1969 landmark Supreme Court Case Tinker v. Des Moines, Erik Jaffe ... Where did the idea for the black armbands come from? What was the significance of it?

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 and John Tinker display their black armbands ... Des Moines Independent Community School District came before the Supreme Court. Though preoccupied by the continuing quagmire in Vietnam ...

RELATED: Tinker v. Des Moines lawyer honored by ACLU ... decided to wear black armbands to school in protest of the Vietnam War and in support of the Christmas truce called for by Sen.

In a landmark free speech case, Tinker v ... rules in favor of three Des Moines students who in 1965 were banned from wearing black arm bands to school to protest the Vietnam War, as reported ...

Just before Christmas in 1965, a group of students in Des Moines, Iowa wore black armbands to school to mourn the dead in Vietnam. I was 13 and in eighth ... or that the ruling in Tinker v. Des Moines ...

John and Mary Beth Tinker, who wore black armbands to protest the Vietnam War ... who was 13 in 1965 when she was suspended from her Des Moines, Iowa, middle school for wearing a black armband ...

In 1965, when Mary Beth Tinker was 13 years old, she wore a black armband to her junior high school to protest the Vietnam War ... Tinker v. Des Moines. In their verdict, the court vindicated ...