“A Conversation with Mary Beth Tinker” is hosted by UW’s Malcolm Wallop Civic Engagement Program and the School of Politics, Public Affairs, and International Studies.

The talk will take place in Room 129 of the Classroom Building. A reception will follow.

In 1965, when Tinker was a 13-year-old student in eighth grade, she and her brothers and sisters, along with other students in their hometown of Des Moines, Iowa, decided to wear black armbands to school to mourn the dead on both sides of the Vietnam War.  Most of the students who wore them were suspended. The American Civil Liberties Union took the case to the Supreme Court, which ruled in the landmark 1969 decision that students in public schools have First Amendment rights.