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.
Even though we were scared, I was still a young kid and I was, I was very shy and scared and I still felt that this was something that other people do, this is something other people do, but I started to have it ingrained in me that this is, this is the way of life and so the next year when the Viet...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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