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Jail
90 days in the parish jail. His companions were sentenced to $35 and costs, or 15 days in jail -
Why this went to court
Participants in an orderly demonstration in a public place are not chargeable with the danger, unprovoked except by the fact of the constitutionally protected demonstration itself. -
March for equality
Brown and the other men, affiliated with the Congress on Racial Equality, went on a Saturday in March 1964 to the Audubon Regional Library in Clinton, La. The library operated under a segregated system that included a whites-only reading room and bookmobile. -
The men enter the library
On 7 March 1964, five young black males entered the adult reading room. One of the men, Brown, requested a book, "The Story of the Negro," -
The men refuse to leave the library
They did not have the book however she told Brown she would request it from the state library and he could pick it up from the bookmobile or it could be mailed to him. After the men didn’t leave the library, the assistant librarian requested that they go. They did not. Read more: Brown v. Louisiana - Significance - Library, Public, Peace, and Breach - JRank Articles http://law.jrank.org/pages/23037/Brown-v-Louisiana-Significance.html#ixzz5TMKsT2Az -
The men were arrested
short time later the sheriff arrived and asked the men to leave. Again, they refused. The sheriff arrested them. They were arrested and charged with the intention to provoke a breach of peace and failure or refusal to leave a public building when ordered to do so. -
Decision
It concluded that there was no evidence to support the use of the breach of the peace statute, and that the protest was considerably less disruptive than earlier situations that the Court had invalidated convictions