Mary Beth Tinker is an American free speech activist known for her role in the 1969 Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District Supreme Court case, which ruled that Warren Harding Junior High School could not punish her for wearing a black armband in school in support of a truce in the Vietnam War. The case set a precedent for student speech in schools. Today, Tinker conducts speaking tours across the United States to teach children and youth about their rights. A youth rights advocate, Tinker has a professional background as a pediatric nurse who is active in union activism and holds masters degrees in both public health and nursing.
There are second and third graders in Washington DC, where I live, and there are junior high students, a nine-year-old in Chicago just lead a march against school closings, public school closings and his name was Ashawn [sp] and he, he gave this speech to Arne Duncan, the director of education for t...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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