Christopher Eckhardt and John Tinker were high school students in 1963; John's sister Mary Beth was in junior high, but they were not too young to feel strongly about the Vietnam War, so strongly that they disobeyed school rules and wore black armbands to protest the war, resulting in their suspension. Believing that they had a right to free expression, the three young people took their case all the way to the Supreme Court. Stephanie Sammartino McPherson explains what happened and the impact it had on the rights of young ...
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Christopher Eckhardt and John Tinker were high school students in 1963; John's sister Mary Beth was in junior high, but they were not too young to feel strongly about the Vietnam War, so strongly that they disobeyed school rules and wore black armbands to protest the war, resulting in their suspension. Believing that they had a right to free expression, the three young people took their case all the way to the Supreme Court. Stephanie Sammartino McPherson explains what happened and the impact it had on the rights of young people today. The book includes a moot court exercise to give readers a deeper understanding of the arguments in the case and the workings of the court system.
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