In the December of 1965 in Des Moines, Iowa, a group of students put together a silent protest against the Vietnam War. The students planned to wear black armbands to their school in order to protest the fighting. Yet, the principal found out the students plan andt and told them if they would be suspended if they came to school wearing the black armbands. Even with the warning, some students came to school wearing the black armband. John F. Tinker(15 years old),Mary Beth Tinker,(13-year-old) and Christopher Eckhardt(16 years old) were all suspended from school because they were caught wearing the black armband. The students were told,by the school, that they couldn't return to school until they agreed to remove their armbands. The students
