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Students' freedom of speech and symbolic speech rights in schools.

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Decision Date: February 24, 1969

Background:

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. Despite the warning, students wore the armbands and were suspended. During their suspension the students' parents sued the school for violating their children's right to free speech. A U.S. district court sided with the school, ruling that wearing armbands could disrupt learning. The students appealed the ruling to a U.S. Court of Appeals but lost and took their case to the United States Supreme Court.

Decision:

In 1969 the United States Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision in favor of the students. The high court agreed that students' free rights should be protected and said, "Students don't shed their constitutional rights at the school house gates."

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AUGUST 28, 2020-DECEMBER 31, 2020

The National Building Museum, in partnership with the P.A.I.N.T.S. Institute and the DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID), is pleased to present Murals That Matter: Activism Through Public Art. Located on the Museum's West Lawn (5th Street NW, between F and G streets), the exhibition features D.C. street art created earlier this summer in response to social justice protests in the nation's capital and elsewhere. The murals speak to the impact that art can have on the built environment as well as the nation's urgent need for dialogue and reflection.

Gallery Place Murals in Exhibition Order
1. Shawn Perkins (Detroit, Michigan), @sptheplug * Black Lives Matter (In Name and Word)
2. The Denver Smith Foundation (Upper Marlboro, Maryland), @denversmithfoundation * We Run With Ahmaud
3. Keiona Clark (Washington, D.C.), @keionaclarkart * Support the Movement
4.1. The Denver Smith Foundation + Nicole Joseph (Washington, D.C.) * Sunflower
4.2. Good Letters Design (Washington, D.C.), @goodlettersdesign * She Matters
4.3. The Denver Smith Foundation * Black Women #SayHerName
5. Dez Zambrano (Los Angeles, California), @dezcustomz * Peace Dove
6. Dez Zambrano * Black Lives Matter
7. Levi Robinson (Newark, New Jersey), @levirobinsonart + Dez Zambrano * Black Lives Matter
8. Luther Wright (Washington, D.C.), @lwart * Black Lives Matter
9. Sonia Jones (Washington, D.C.), @soniajonestheartist * Panther Party
10. Jay Durrah (Washington, D.C.), @jay_durrah * Am I Next?
11. Shani Shih (Washington, D.C.), @shanishih * One Under the Sun
12. Shani Shih * All Power to the People
13. Senia Cade (Queens, New York), @sc._art * Just Getting Started
14. Miguel Davis Jr. (Washington, D.C.), @sivadart_ * Let Us Breathe
15. Kimeko Robinson (Washington, D.C.), @tkokocreole * Black Lives Matter/God Is Love
16. Sonia Jones * Little Black Girl
17. Moses Rivera (Washington, D.C.), @mosart_artwear / Black Lives Matter
18. Moses Rivera * Black Lives Matter 2

2020 March on Washington Guest Mural
19. Keith Smith (Chicago, Illinois), @afrokilla * The Light of the World

The Big Six
1. Shawn Perkins (Detroit, Michigan), @sptheplug * John Lewis
2. Demont Pinder (Queens, New York), @demontpinder * Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
3. Dez Zambrano (Los Angeles, California), @dezcustomz * Whitney Moore Young Jr.
4. Levi Robinson (Newark, New Jersey), @levirobinsonart * A. Philip Randolph & Dorothy Height
5. Mohammed Gafar (Saudi Arabia), @kreativecustomkicks * James Farmer Jr.
6. Jamaal Lamaaj (Washington, D.C.), @jlamaaj * Roy Wilkins

Dez Zambrano (@dezcustomz) Kimeko Robinson (@tkokocreole) Jay Durrah (@jay_durrah) Shani Shih (@shanishih) Sonia Jones Moses Rivera (@mosart_artwear) Luther Wright (@lwart) Meghan Malik / Denver Smith Foundation (@denversmithfoundation) Miguel Davis Jr. (@sivadart_) Senia Cade (@sc._art) Madelyn Adams / Good Letters Design (@goodlettersdesign) Shawn Perkins (@sptheplug) Keiona Clark (@keionaclarkart) Levi Robinson (@levirobinsonart)

Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Learn how street art can transform public space, serve as form of protest and activism, and contribute to the civic discourse on important topics. John Chisolm, Executive Director, P.A.I.N.T.S. Institute; Gerren Price, Director of Public Space Operations, DowntownDC Business Improvement District; Levi Robinson, visual artist; and Tim Wright, founder of Attucks Adams, a D.C.-based history tour organization, discuss how public art contributes to the character of neighborhoods and was essential in supporting social justice protests in Washington, D.C., following the murder of George Floyd. The program is moderated by National Building Museum's Caitlin Bristol, Project Manager for Exhibitions.

To celebrate this exhibition, the Museum Shop has commissioned jigsaw puzzles. All sales benefits both the Museum and the P.A.I.N.T.S Institute.

To coincide with 2020 March on Washington events, Murals That Matter opened on August 28, 2020. The exhibition comprises both existing and newly created artwork that will be on display through late November.

Gallery Place Murals: In June 2020, amid an unprecedented global pandemic, protesters took to the streets of Washington, D.C., in response to the murder of George Floyd-and Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, and so many others who came before. To capture the historic moment, the DowntownDC BID worked with the P.A.I.N.T.S. Institute to commission dozens of murals for boarded-up storefronts. (The organization's acronym stands for "Providing Artists with Inspiration in Non-Traditional Settings.") The public experience of these plywood barriers, now reframed through vibrant art, shifted from "stay away" to "come look." The Gallery Place neighborhood was transformed with artworks that expressed love, unity, and hope; that spoke to racial injustice and societal inequities; and that proclaimed support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Murals That Matter displays 18 of those murals.

The Big Six: In a celebration of the life and legacy of the late Rep. John Lewis, a towering figure of the Civil Rights movement, six artists have created murals commemorating the members of the "Big Six" who organized the original March on Washington in 1963: John Lewis, Chairman, Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee; Whitney Young, National Director, Urban League; A. Philip Randolph, President, Negro American Labor Council; Martin Luther King Jr., President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference; James Farmer, Director, Congress of Racial Equality; Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. These murals, painted live on August 28 and 29, are now part of the exhibition.

EXHIBITION COVERAGE

WJLA * WUSA * Architect Magazine * VisitBlackHistory.com * The Architect's Newspaper * Lailah's Learning Corner
Top photo: Gallery Place Mural in progress. Image courtesy DowntownDC BID.

MURALS THAT MATTER GALLERY
Gallery Place 1-18 & Big Six mural images courtesy Aaron Hernandez (IG: @errand_boy) © P.A.I.N.T.S. Institute / 19: Museum Staff

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Murals That Matter: Activism Through Public Art is made possible with support from HumanitiesDC and the National Endowment for the Humanities as part of the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Murals That Matter: Activism Through Public Art | National Building Museum

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An exhibition of downtown D.C. murals created in early summer 2020 in response to social justice protests in the nation's capital. A partnership with the DowntownDC BID and the P.A.I.N.T.S. Institute.

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Pithy and powerful, poetry is a popular art form at protests and rallies. From the civil rights and women's liberation movements to Black Lives Matter, poetry is commanding enough to gather crowds in a city square and compact enough to demand attention on social media. Speaking truth to power remains a crucial role of the poet in the face of political and media rhetoric designed to obscure, manipulate, or worse. The selection of poems below call out and talk back to the inhumane forces that threaten from above. They expose grim truths, raise consciousness, and build united fronts. Some insist, as Langston Hughes writes, "That all these walls oppression builds / Will have to go!" Others seek ways to actively "make peace," as Denise Levertov implores, suggesting that "each act of living" might cultivate collective resistance. All rail against complacency and demonstrate why poetry is necessary and sought after in moments of political crisis.

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Poems of Protest, Resistance, and Empowerment | Poetry Foundation

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Why poetry is necessary and sought after during crises.

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Opinion: In America, Protest is Patriotic

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