Tinker v. Des Moines (Independent Community School District) was a controversial court in 1965 were multiple students in Des Moines wear black arm band in protest of the Vietnam War by doing so they were suspended from school.
In December of 1965, a group of kids from throughout the city of Des Moines, Iowa congregated at the home of Christopher Eckhardt a sixteen year old student from Des Moines. The meeting was called discusses a plan to wear black armbands to school in protest of the Vietnam War and to also fast on December 16 and New Year’s Eve. But on December 14 two days before the protest were set to begin the principals of the school found out about the plan to protest and quickly created a policy that would prohibit the wearing of