The court's 7 to 2 decision was handed down on February 24, 1969 by Justices Hugh Black and John Marshall Harlan II.
The court's 7 to 2 decision was handed down on February 24, 1969 by Justices Hugh Black and John Marshall Harlan II. Black dissented because he didn't believe that disruptive symbolic speech was constitutionally protected by the First Amendment. Holding that the First Amendment applied to public schools this is, FTP, this Iowa school First Amendment case involving students wearing black armbands to the Vietnam War.
The court's 7 to 2 decision was handed down on February 24, 1969 by Justices Hugh Black and John Marshall Harlan II.
{Tinker} v. {Des Moines} Independent Community School District