THIS MONTH the Bill of Rights is 206 years old, and I got to celebrate the occasion with Mary Beth Tinker. Mary Beth who ... day by Mary Beth’s brother John and two others).

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 ...

Lawyers representing Mary Beth Tinker and John Tinker, plaintiffs in a historic free-speech court case that originated in Des Moines, filed a “friend of the court” brief in support of a ...

Mary Beth Tinker, a pediatric nurse living in Washington, D.C., is a labor union advocate who has spoken out about school closings in the nation's capital. John Tinker spent much of the 1980s and ...

Mary Beth Tinker speaks to Roosevelt High School students ... but junior high student Mary Beth and her high school brother John were suspended for the remainder of the year.

Mrs. Tinker was the mother of John and Mary Beth Tinker, who wore black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War in 1965, leading to the landmark 1969 Supreme Court ruling in Tinker v.

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 ...

A presentation and discussion with Mary Beth and John Tinker. A presentation and discussion with Mary Beth and John Tinker, moderated by Radio Iowa’s Kay Henderson. The Tinkers reflect on the ...

When Mary Beth arrived at school on Dec. 16, she was asked to remove the armband and was then suspended. Four other students were suspended as well, including her brother John Tinker and Chris ...

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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! In discussing the 1969 landmark Supreme Court Case Tinker v. Des Moines, Mary Beth and John Tinker, petitioners in the case, described their ...