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Date: 1961Garner v. Louisiana  

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  • 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]

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  • Date: 1961

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-Q1136N4D-F

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