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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. The school board got wind of the protest and passed a preemptive ban. When Mary Beth arrived at school on Dec. 16, she was asked to remove the armband and was then suspended.

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On February 24, 1969, the court ruled 7-2 that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” The court found that the First Amendment applied to public schools, and school officials could not stop student speech unless it disrupted the educational process.

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Tinker v. Des Moines was a First Amendment case challenging the school district's right to make policies restricting students' and teachers' expression of free speech in school.

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According to The New York Times, Tinker v Des Moines independent school district had a major impact on court ruling concerning the right of teens to free speech and self-expression. Because of the Tinker ruling, students have been free to wear dyed hair and nose rings in public schools.

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Do Students Have Free Speech in School? | Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District

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Mary beth Tinker and her brother wore black armband to school and they got suspended from school.

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Was the School violating the students 1st amendment right to protest in school?