Feb 4, 2017
The latest in our
Landmark Supreme Court Cases Saturday Webinar series focused
on Tinker v. Des Moines (1969), the landmark case
that decided a school-based case about expressive speech and
political protest. At the height of the Vietnam War, high school
students in Iowa sought to protest America's involvement in the war
by wearing black arm bands, and were
prevented from
doing so by school administration. Four years later, in 1969, the
case was decided by the Supreme Court, changing American legal
views on free speech, protest, and how these things could be
expressed in a public schools.
Questions raised by the audience of teachers focused on Justice Black's dissent, original intent of the Founders, and the power of the Supreme Court to interpret language and law.
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