Thirteen-year-old Mary Beth Tinker knew what awaited her when she saw her math teacher standing outside the classroom, a pink slip in his hand. Not two days before on Dec. 14, 1965, the Des Moines ...
In 1965, John and Mary Beth Tinker went to school in Des Moines wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War. They were suspended, and the incident led to a landmark Supreme Court decision that ...
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 ...