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Mary Beth Tinker Discusses Importance of Children Standing Up For Their Rights

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Mary Beth Tinker

  • Founder, Tinker Tour
  • female
  • Caucasian
  • 1952 (Age: 72 years old)
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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.

And I went on and I grew up and I became a nurse, and I started noticing that kids really don't have rights as they should and not only that but our society is not set up to the benefit of children overall. I think Obama recently said that you can judge a society by the way it treats its children a...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).

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Video 1 of 16 Mary Beth Tinker Discusses Tinker Tour Project Background
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Video 2 of 16 Mary Beth Tinker Discusses Importance of Students Having Voices
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Video 3 of 16 Mary Beth Tinker Discusses Young Kids Who Are Social Activists
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Video 4 of 16 Mary Beth Tinker Shares Historical Anecdote About Ben Franklin
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Video 5 of 16 Mary Beth Tinker Discusses Role Of Family in Her Background
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Video 6 of 16 Mary Beth Tinker Shares Thoughts on Martin Luther King Jr
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Video 7 of 16 Mary Beth Tinker Discusses Growing Up In Civil Rights Era
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Video 8 of 16 Mary Beth Tinker Discusses Involvement Of American Civil Liberties Union
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Video 9 of 16 Mary Beth Tinker Discusses Importance of Children Standing Up For Their Rights
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Video 10 of 16 Mary Beth Tinker Discusses Supreme Court Cases on Student Expression
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Video 11 of 16 Mary Beth Tinker Discusses Related Court Cases On Student Expression
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Video 12 of 16 Mary Beth Tinker Discusses Positive Influence Of Her Parents
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Video 13 of 16 Mary Beth Tinker Discusses Teachers Rights
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Video 14 of 16 Mary Beth Tinker Discusses Socioeconomics Aspects of Student Rights
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Video 15 of 16 Mary Beth Tinker Discusses Issues With Testing
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Video 16 of 16 Mary Beth Tinker Shares Thoughts on Challenges Facing Adult Free Speech
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