In 1965, John and Mary Beth Tinker went to school in Des Moines wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War. They were suspended, and the incident led to a landmark Supreme Court decision that ...
Thirteen-year-old Mary Beth Tinker knew what awaited her when she saw her math teacher standing outside the classroom, a pink slip in his hand. Not two days before on Dec. 14, 1965, the Des Moines ...
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, took questions ...
Mary Beth Tinker is a retired nurse who lives with her wife in Washington D.C. and is a frequent speaker to student groups about free speech and expression. Young people will find a way to speak up ...
Mary Beth Tinker, from the Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, talked with students in the Hilary J. Boone Center Thursday about her story with student rights and the power of youth. Tinker, at ...
A silent protest led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling that defined students’ free speech rights. The court’s 1969 landmark decision in Tinker v. Des Moines affirmed that “students do not leave their ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. CEDAR RAPIDS — In 1965, Mary Beth Tinker was just 13 when she and four other students wore black ...
Mary Beth Tinker, a key plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, delivered a lecture highlighting the connection between student free speech and racial justice movements, ...
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 ...
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 Pennsylvania ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Mary Beth Tinker is a Free Speech Advocate with five videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2009 Interview as a Petitioner. The year with the most ...
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