Be the Judge Be the Jury: Tinker Versus Des Moine, Student Rights on Trial

by Doreen Rappaport

Book Overview

In 1965, school officials in Des Moines, Iowa, banned the wearing of black arm bands by students mourning the dead in the Vietnam War. When the students wore the arm bands anyway, they were suspended. Were the students' constitutional rights violated? Readers will sit in the judge's chair and decide who is right.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064461149
• ISBN13: 9780064461146
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher