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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mary Beth Tinker, an American free speech activist known for her role in the 1969 Tinker versus Des Moines Independent School District Supreme Court case, which ruled schools could not punish students ...

The Tinkers from Coronation Street have undergone some big changes this week following the tragic death of Craig. The Corrie police officer was brutally attacked by Mick Michaelis (Joe Layton) when he ...