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 followed their ... being suspended for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War, the siblings returned Tuesday to Des Moines’ Harding Middle and North High ...

Mary Beth Tinker and John ... the war by wearing black armbands. But this symbolic move carried consequences. In December 1965, when a group of teenagers in Des Moines, Iowa arrived to school ...