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Argued November 12, 1968 Decided February 24, 1969; Full case name: John F. Tinker and Mary Beth Tinker, minors, by their father and next friend, Leonard Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt, minor, by his father and next friend, William Eckhardt v.
Mary Beth Tinker was given detention for wearing a black armband to protest the Vietnam War, leading to the Tinker v. Des Moines case.. In Tinker, 393 U.S. 503 (1969), several students were suspended for wearing black armbands that protested against the Vietnam War.
Mary Beth Tinker is an American free speech activist known for her role in the 1969 Tinker v.Des Moines Independent Community School District Supreme Court case, which ruled that Warren Harding Junior High School could not punish her for wearing a black armband in school in support of a truce in the Vietnam War.
1969's Tinker v. Des Moines court ruling concerned three Iowa high school students who, in 1965, wore black armbands to protest the Vietnam War. School officials had contrived to shut down the ...
As the Des Moines Register marks its 175th year, today's historic front page is from Feb. 24, 1969: Teens win landmark case on free speech in school Historic front page from Des Moines Register ...
In 1965, 15-year-old John Tinker was among a group of students in Des Moines, Iowa, who were suspended after they wore black armbands to school to protest the rising death toll in the Vietnam War ...
The substantial disruption test is a criterion set forth by the United States Supreme Court, in the leading case of Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969). [1]
Sep. 19—JEFFERSON — An appellate court last week reversed a seven-year prison sentence for an Ashtabula woman and remanded it for further proceedings consistent with its opinion, meaning the ...