U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law
Feb. 12, 2019
The high court’s Tinker free speech decision at 50
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District was the first Supreme Court ruling that provided protection for students’ First Amendment rights.
Donna Myrow
Founder
L.A. Youth
Email: donnamyrow@gmail.com
L.A. Youth was a newspaper by and about teens and a nonprofit journalism education organization.
Student activism had a loud voice on high school and college campuses as American intervention in the Vietnam War escalated. At the same time Martin Luther King, Jr. led a march in Selma, Alabama, to protest low black voter registration while emerging as a leader in the civil rights movement.
It was 1965 and protests dominated the news. The Watts riots broke out in Los Angeles that year. It was a sign of the times.
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