Mary Beth Tinker is an American free speech activist known for her role in the 1969 Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District Supreme Court case, which ruled that Warren Harding Junior High School could not punish her for wearing a black armband in school in support of a truce in the Vietnam War. The case set a precedent for student speech in schools. Today, Tinker conducts speaking tours across the United States to teach children and youth about their rights. A youth rights advocate, Tinker has a professional background as a pediatric nurse who is active in union activism and holds masters degrees in both public health and nursing.
It would have been the end of the whole thing, except for a group called the American Civil Liberties Union, who heard about what we had done and there was a woman there, Louis Mound who decided that she would get the Iowa Civil Liberties Union to help us. So it went to court, and it went to the di...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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