Hamm v. City of Rock Hill

These are “sit-in” cases that came here from the highest courts of South Carolina and Arkansas, respectively. Each of those courts affirmed convictions based upon state' trespass statutes against petitioners, who are Negroes, for participating in “sit-in” démonstrations in the luncheon facilities of retail stores in their respective States^ We granted certiorari in each of the cases, 377 U. S. 988, 989, and consolidated them for argument. The petitioners asserted both in the state courts and here the denial of rights, privileges, and immunities secured by the Fourteenth Amendment; in…