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Nov 20, 2012

School Activist Whose Protest Resulted in Supreme Court Ruling Weighs in on D.C. School Closures

Mary Beth Tinker, whose 1965 schoolhouse anti-Vietnam protest resulted in a Supreme Court ruling on students’ First Amendment rights, spoke yesterday at the D.C. Council in opposition to a plan to close 20 D.C. public schools.

 
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