Edwards v. South Carolina (369 U.S. 870)

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Edwards v. South Carolina, 372 U.S. 229 (1963), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution forbade state government officials to force a crowd to disperse when they are otherwise legally marching in front of a state house. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Edwards v. South Carolina

Jack Greenberg, Constance Baker Motley, James M. Nabrit III, Matthew J. Perry, Lincoln C. Jenkins, Jr. and Donald James Sampson, for petitioners.

Daniel R. McLeod, Atty. Gen. of South Carolina, Everett N. Brandon, Asst. Atty. Gen., and J. C. Coleman, Jr., for respondent.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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