THE 1970S 1969 1979
SUPREME COURT CASE ROE V WADE
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Freedom of religious expression in the military.
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Libel and public figures.
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Congressional redistricting and race.
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Symbolic speech and schools.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Supreme Court ruled that the armbands were a form of symbolic speech, which is protected by the First Amendment, and therefore the school had violated the students’ First Amendment rights.
Detailed explanation-3: -Little did 13-year-old Mary Beth Tinker know that wearing a black armband to school would open ‘the schoolhouse gate’ to student free-speech issues for the next 50 years. The landmark decision in Tinker v. Des Moines is widely considered the watershed of students’ free speech rights at school.
Detailed explanation-4: -Arguments for Tinker: Students are people with Constitutional protections. Wearing armbands was symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment. Wearing armbands was not disruptive. Wearing armbands did not infringe on anyone else’s rights.