On Thanksgiving weekend, one of the first large marches on Washington against the war draws some 25,000 participants, including Des Moines high school students John Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt ...

Thirteen-year-old Mary Beth Tinker didn’t know she was making history when she went to junior high school on December 16, 1965, wearing a black armband in protest of the Vietnam War.

FAYETTE, Mo. — John Tinker is semi-famous here but not for what you’d think. Around Fayette, Missouri, population 2,995, some don’t know he’s that Tinker, the name on a landmark U.S ...

In a landmark victory for students’ rights, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) that schools are not “enclaves of totalitarianism” and that neither “students nor ...

Barbara Howard: The right of students to protest at school can be traced back to a U.S. Supreme Court decision nearly 50 years ago that set that right in stone. The case was called Tinker v.Des Moines ...

In the first case to establish free speech rights for students, Tinker v.Des Moines, the ACLU represented Mary Beth Tinker and two other Des Moines junior high school students who had been suspended ...

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 ...

In 1969, in Tinker v. Des Moines, the Court ruled that “It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the ...

National Constitution Center President Jeffrey Rosen and constitutional scholars Akhil Amar and Michael Paulsen previewed Tinker v. Des Moines, a case involving student's freedom of speech rights.

John Tinker, a co-petitioner in the landmark Supreme Court case [Tinker v. Des Moines], went back to Des Moines, Iowa, to tell his story about protesting the Vietnam War by wearing a black arm ...