Tinker v. Des Moines is a historic Supreme Court ruling from 1969 that cemented students’ rights to free speech in public schools. Mary Beth Tinker was a 13-year-old junior high school student in ...

THIS MONTH the Bill of Rights is 206 years old, and I got to celebrate the occasion with Mary Beth Tinker. Mary Beth who? On Dec. 16, 1965 (coincidentally, just one day after the anniversary of ...

Mary Beth and John Tinker display their black armbands in 1968, over two years after they wore anti-war armbands to school and sparked a legal battle that would make it all the way to the Supreme ...

As she stood before local students in a federal courtroom in Washington, Mary Beth Tinker held aloft a replica of the black armband that had brought her notoriety — and students like them ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Mary Beth Tinker is a Petitioner with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2009 Interview. The year with the most videos was 2018 with two ...

Mary Beth Tinker speaks to Roosevelt High School students about being an activist in 1965 and encourages them to share what kind of changes they wish to advocate for in 2015. Fifty years ago this ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Mary Beth Tinker, the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case that defined free speech in public schools, will speak at the City Club of Cleveland Friday. On the tails of ...

John and Mary Beth Tinker were petitioners forty-six years ago in Tinker v. Des Moines Indpt. Sch. Dist., 393 U.S. 503 (1969), the landmark case that established “[i]t can hardly be argued that ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! In discussing the 1969 landmark Supreme Court Case Tinker v. Des Moines, Mary Beth Tinker, a petitioner in the case, spoke about how she found ...

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 ...

Mary Beth and John Tinker followed their conscience and ended up making history. Almost 50 years after being suspended for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War, the siblings returned ...