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Bookmark or Share- Tinker v. Des Moines - American Civil Liberties UnionMary Beth Tinker was a 13-year-old junior high school student in December 1965 when she and a group of students decided to wear black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam. The school board got wind of the protest and passed a preemptive ban.
- Tinker v. Des Moines: Protecting student free speechEnter Mary Beth Tinker, a 13-year-old student at Warren Harding Junior High School in Des Moines, Iowa. Her story is recounted with care in Peter Irons’ The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court, the primary source for this discussion.
- The Young Anti-War Activists Who Fought for Free Speech at SchoolBianca Sánchez. January 23, 2019. Mary Beth and John Tinker display their black armbands in 1968, over two years after they wore anti-war armbands to school and sparked a legal battle that...
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School DistrictOn December 16, 1965, a 13-year-old 8th grader, Mary Beth Tinker, and a 16-year-old 11th grader, Christopher Eckhardt, wore black armbands to school in protest against the Vietnam War. Mary Beth’s older brother John, a 15-year-old 11th grader, wore an armband the following day.
- Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) (article) | Khan AcademyBackground of the case. In 1965, Iowa teenagers Mary Beth Tinker, her brother John, and their friend Christopher Eckhardt decided to stage a peaceful protest of the Vietnam War by wearing black armbands to their public schools. School officials announced that students who wore armbands had to remove them or face suspension.
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