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Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District - Significance, Related Cases, Student Protests, 1964-1967, Further Readings

Petitioners

John P. Tinker, Mary Beth Tinker, Christopher Eckhardt

Respondent

Des Moines Independent Community School District

Petitioners' Claim

That it was a violation of free speech rights for their high school to suspend them for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War.

Chief Lawyer for Petitioners

Dan Johnston

Chief Lawyer for Respondent

Allan A. Herrick

Justices for the Court

William J. Brennan, Jr., William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas (writing for the Court), Thurgood Marshall, Potter Stewart, Earl Warren, Byron R. White

Justices Dissenting

Hugo Lafayette Black, John Marshall Harlan II

Place

Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision

24 February 1969

Decision

The Supreme Court struck down the school regulation that resulted in the suspension.

Additional Topics

Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District - Significance

Tinker is one of the most important Supreme Court cases to deal with the rights of public school students in the marketplace of ideas. In December of 1965, a group adults met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Eckhardt. They discussed ways to protest the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Some of their children were present, including 16-year-old Christopher Eckhardt, 15-year-old John Tinker, a…

Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District - Further Readings

Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District - Related Cases

Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District - Student Protests, 1964-1967

During the turbulent 1960s the civil rights movement and the largely student-led Vietnam War protests expanded the ways of communicating political messages. Traditional forms of speech and press gave way to demonstrations. Sit-ins, marches, black arm bands, draft card burning, and flag desecration graphically presented the protester's political message. The student protest movement began in 1964 a…

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