Activist speaks to Will East students about free speech, Constitution



In December 1965, Mary Beth Tinker was part of a small group of students in Des Moines, Iowa, who chose to wear a black armband to school. For the students, the armband symbolized mourning of the dead on both sides of the Vietnam War and supported Robert F. Kennedy’s call for a Christmas truce. That year, approximately 1,000 soldiers had […]

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