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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Tinker v. Des Moines is a historic Supreme Court ruling from 1969 that cemented students’ rights to free speech in public schools. Mary Beth Tinker was a 13-year-old junior high school student in ...

A silent protest led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling that defined students’ free speech rights. The court’s 1969 landmark decision in Tinker v. Des Moines affirmed that “students do not leave their ...

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Shady Spring 11th-grade history students gather for a Zoom meeting with Mary Beth Tinker in the high school library Tuesday. Tinker was a plaintiff in the 1969 Supreme Court case involving black ...

Mary Beth Tinker is a retired nurse who lives with her wife in Washington D.C. and is a frequent speaker to student groups about free speech and expression. Young people will find a way to speak up ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mary Beth Tinker was just 13 when she spoke out against the Vietnam War by wearing a black armband to her Iowa school in 1965. When the school suspended her, she took her free speech ...

Greg Harold Greubel is a graduate of Pleasantville High School and the University of Northern Iowa. He works as an attorney at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Iowa is home to one ...

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