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 ...

This article is part of In Session: The Teen Vogue Lesson Plan. Find the full lesson plan here. Thirteen-year-old Mary Beth Tinker didn’t know she was making history when she went to junior high ...

User-Created Clip by tgrane April 24, 2018 2018-04-23T21:39:27-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/37c/20180423214145001_hd.jpgIn discussing the 1969 landmark ...

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 ...

DC Larson, a writer, lives in Waterloo. 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 ...

Brandi Levy, the former Mahanoy Area cheerleader who gained national attention with the historic U.S. Supreme Court case in 2021 involving her school, is featured in a new documentary about students’ ...

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, ...

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 ...

Professor Adam Benforado discusses Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) — a high-water mark for student speech — and how student speech rights have been eroded since the decision.