Tinker Vs. Des Moines

Doreen Rappaport

ଅକ୍ଟୋବର 2012 · StarWalk Kids Media

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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.

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Doreen Rappaport is an award-winning author known to educators, parents, children and young adult readers for thirty-eight fiction and non-fiction books that celebrate multiculturalism, the retelling of folktales and myths, history, the lives of world leaders and the stories of those she calls ‘not-yet-celebrated.’Her books have received critical acclaim and awards for her unique ability to combine historical facts with intimate storytelling, and for finding “new ways to present the lives of well-known heroes‚” like Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller and the Statue of Liberty.A dynamic writer-teacher-storyteller in the classroom, she is a frequent speaker at state and national educational conferences, universities, libraries, historical societies, book fairs, and community centers. Doreen Rappaport has been a featured author at the National Portrait Gallery, National Book Festival, the Smithsonian Museum of American History and the White House.