The 1969 Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines involved students wearing black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War. The students, including Mary Beth Tinker, John F. Tinker, and Christopher Eckhardt, wore the armbands to show their sorrow for those who died in the war. The court ruled 7-2 in favor of the students on February 24, 1969. The ruling affirmed students' First Amendment rights to free speech. The court held that the school district violated students' free speech rights by singling out the black armbands as a form of symbolic speech.
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