How Tinker v. Des Moines Established Students’ Free Speech Rights | Retro Report

In 1965, a simple black armband became a powerful symbol of student free speech. “We decided to wear them to school, to mourn for the dead in Vietnam and to say that there should be a truce,” said Mary Beth Tinker, one of a group of students who participated in the protest. But when the students were suspended by the Des Moines school board for their silent protest, their fight for expression went all the way to the Supreme Court.