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...notion that whatever the teacher says goes began to fade in the1960s. Outrage over racism, poverty and the Vietnam War made questioning authority a righteous cause in schools as well as on the streets. But students also attracted attention from public-interest lawyers who believed that stronger rights of expression would allow children to get a better education. Their first big victory came in 1969 with the black-armband case, called Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District. In a 7-to-2 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that students don't "shed their constitutional rights to freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting for Free Speech in Schools | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

Demong likens the possibility for economicgrowth in the Square to the rejuvenation whichtook place in Boston's Quincy Market during the1960s...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Old Days of Quiet Neighborhood Die | 2/17/1995 | See Source »

...other students maintain that theadministration has not changed much since the1960s...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: Since `69, Protests' Nature Changed | 4/22/1994 | See Source »

...Bill Walsh gave me the money and I made themistake of saying [it went to] VICS," saidColleton, who said he has known Walsh since the1960s. "I see how he can easily think it wasVICS...

Author: By Melissa Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Walsh Donations Unverified | 12/9/1992 | See Source »

Fink, one of the rally's organizers, identifiedthe man as "Joe," a Polish activist who used to bea counter-demonstrator at student protests in the1960s. Fink said "Joe" was a member of the PolishFreedom Fighters, a group he said is associatedwith white supremacist organizations...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: 500 Remember Protests of 1969 | 4/8/1989 | See Source »

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