Black armband

File:Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia from NPG.jpg|Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia wearing a black armband in a 1614 portrait File:General William T. Sherman (4190887790) (cropped).jpg|William Tecumseh Sherman in May 1865, wearing a black ribbon after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln File:Leopold III (1934).jpg|Leopold III of Belgium, wearing a black armband contemporary with his ascension to the throne following the death of his father, Albert I File:FDR-September-11-1941.jpg|Franklin D. Roosevelt wearing a black armband in mourning of his mother File:Glasmästaren formar en skål formgiven av Hugo Gehlin.jpg|A man wearing a mourning band on his lapel in a glassworks, Sweden, ca 1940–41 File:Berks County Sheriff.png|A Berks County deputy sheriff wearing a mourning band on his badge, in Washington, DC, 2012 ==Use in protest==

In 1965, five students in Des Moines, Iowa, protested silently against the Vietnam War by wearing black armbands in school. The resulting suspension and legal challenges led in 1969 to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, which held that the students' armbands did not create a "substantial disruption" and therefore were constitutionally protected under the First Amendment. At the 2003 Cricket World Cup in Harare, two players from the Zimbabwe national cricket team wore armbands made of black electrical tape to symbolically mourn "the death of democracy" in Zimbabwe. This protest was praised abroad and condemned locally, and both men ultimately moved to the United Kingdom. ==See also==