The First Amendment

The 1,500-square-foot exhibit features more than 20 artifacts highlighting all five freedoms. Combined, these items capture how these rights have been defended over time, and the lengths some have gone to in order to ensure their protection. These pieces include a draft opinion with handwritten edits from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis; an anti-Vietnam War armband worn by the Tinker family and associated with the landmark student speech case, Tinker v. Des Moines; The New York Times’ 1971 publication of the classified “Pentagon Papers”; and a pennant from the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Visitors are invited to challenge their knowledge of the First Amendment through interactive elements and games.