Mary Beth Tinker was a 13-year-old junior high school student 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 board ...

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 ...

Mary Beth and John Tinker continue to add their historic ... and the late Christopher Eckhardt had a right to wear black armbands with the “peace” symbol to their public schools in Iowa ...

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 ...

Mary Beth Tinker was one of ... s First Amendment rights. Ms. Tinker, who was then only 13 years old, joined other students in wearing a black armband to school in protest of the Vietnam War.

Guests John and Mary Beth Tinker, the siblings at the center of the 1969 landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld their right to wear armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War, ...

WASHINGTON — Mary Beth Tinker ... she is the black armband, after all these years. “Kids can shake things up! That’s what we need today — to shake things up!” Tinker tells the 40 ...

three Des Moines teenagers wore black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War. Their suspension led to a 1969 U.S. Supreme Court decision that was a turning point for students’ First Amendment ...

In discussing the 1969 landmark Supreme Court Case Tinker v. Des Moines, Erik Jaffe, Free Speech and Election Law Practice Group Chair at the Federalist Society, and Mary Beth Tinker, a petitioner ...

Des Moines, the ACLU represented Mary Beth Tinker and two other Des Moines junior high school students who had been suspended for wearing black armbands in school to protest the Vietnam War. The ...

I fondly recall my senior year in high school when Mary Beth Tinker, John Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt wore black armbands to their high school to protest the Vietnam War. Their suspension from ...