THE 1970S 1969 1979
SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE
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Tinker v. Des Moines
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Schenck v. U.S.
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White v. Regester
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Korematsu v. U.S.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1965, a public school district in Iowa suspended three teenagers for wearing black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War. Their families filed suit, and in 1969 the case reached the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that the school district had violated the students’ free speech rights.
Detailed explanation-2: -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 December 1965 when she and a group of students decided to wear black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam.
Detailed explanation-3: -At a public school in Des Moines, Iowa, students organized a silent protest against the Vietnam War. Students planned to wear black armbands to school to protest the fighting but the principal found out and told the students they would be suspended if they wore the armbands.
Detailed explanation-4: -In Tinker v. Des Moines, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the First Amendment applies to public schools.