Concept information
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social history of crime
courts, corrections, punishments
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court cases
Preferred term
Garner v. Louisiana
Definition
- The unanimous Supreme Court decision in Garner v. Louisiana , 368 U.S. 157 (1961), voided the application of a Louisiana breach of the peace statute to peaceful sit-in demonstrations, such as those at department store lunch counters. It was the first case before the Court to deal with the constitutionality of regulations on sit-ins, an important method of protest during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. [Source: Encyclopedia of the First Amendment; Garner v. Louisiana (1961)]
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Date
- 1961
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Garner_v._Louisiana
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