Ex-Iowan behind landmark free speech case recounts story in Bellevue

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By Joe Dejka PUBLISHED WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2014 AT 3:14 PM /

Nearly 50 years ago, a few scraps of black cloth changed the fabric of free speech in American public schools.

One of those scraps hung on the arm of Mary Beth Tinker, a 13-year-old Iowa girl.

Tinker, who now lives in Washington, D.C., was back in the Midlands on Wednesday telling her story of conviction and defiance to about 600 metro-Omaha high school students.

In 1965, Tinker was among a handful of students who wore black armbands to her Des Moines junior high school to protest the Vietnam War.

FULL story and photo at link.