BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20140508T003000Z DTEND:20140508T020000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:First Amendment Festival presents speaker Mary Beth Tinker DESCRIPTION:13-year-old Mary Beth Tinker made history in 1965 when she decided to exercise her 1st Amendment rights by wearing a black armband to mourn those killed in the Vietnam War. Mary Beth was expelled. After four years of heated school board meetings and death threats\, the Supreme Court ruled in her favor\, setting a new bar for students' right to free expression. She will tell the story of her landmark Supreme Court case\, which set the high water mark by which most other student First Amendment cases are judged\, and she will urge students to use their rights to speak out about today?s pressing issues. Sponsors: First Amendment Festival\, Daily Record\, CWU Office of the Provost\, College of Arts & Humanities\, Communications Department Contact: Cynthia Mitchell\, CWU Communications Department\, michelc@cwu.edu\, 509-963-1063 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:13-year-old Mary Beth Tinker made history in 1965 when she decided to exercise her 1st Amendment rights by wearing a black armband to mourn those killed in the Vietnam War. Mary Beth was expelled. After four years of heated school board meetings and death threats\, the Supreme Court ruled in her favor\, setting a new bar for students'\; right to free expression. \; She will tell the story of her landmark Supreme Court case\, which set the high water mark by which most other student First Amendment cases are judged\, and she will urge students to use their rights to speak out about today?s pressing issues. Sponsors: First Amendment Festival\, Daily Record\, CWU Office of the Provost\, College of Arts &\; Humanities\, Communications Department Contact: Cynthia Mitchell\, CWU Communications Department\, michelc@cwu.edu\, 509-963-1063 LOCATION:SURC Theatre UID:e.40.11613 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260419T130615Z URL:http://business.kittitascountychamber.com/events/details/first-amendment-festival-presents-speaker-mary-beth-tinker-05-07-2014-11613 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR