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Weekly Challenger
January 10, 2018
Parents of suspended students successfully challenged their school districts in Burnside v. Byars (1966) and Blackwell v. Issaquena County (1966). These cases established the legal precedent cited in Tinker v. Des Moines (1969), which found that students maintained a First Amendment right to wear blackÃâà...
The American Prospect
December 28, 2017
In one of these key disputes, Burnside v. Byars, the black principal of the black Booker T. Washington High School in Philadelphia, Mississippi, forbade students from wearing “freedom buttons” to school. Emblazoned on these buttons were “One Man One Vote” and “SNCC,” the abbreviation, of course,Ãâà...
Justia Verdict
July 17, 2016
Teachers must accordingly struggle for personal and intellectual growth of their students in a democratic and open learning academic environment, devoid of oppression. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recognized in Burnside v. Byars (1966) that “school officials cannot ignore expressions ofÃâà...
Huffington Post
February 24, 2014
Citing Burnside, the court said a student “may express his opinions, even on controversial subjects” . . . if he does so without “materially and substantially interfer[ing] with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school” and without colliding with the rights of others. (Burnside v. ByarsÃâà...
