Summary
The civil rights organization whose 1966 Claiborne County boycott produced NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. (1982), the precedent on which Kenney-Shawa’s brief rests the First Amendment right to boycott Israel (lines 203-207).
Details
- In 1966 the local NAACP chapter in Claiborne County, Mississippi, coordinated a boycott of white-owned businesses, calling on local government and business leaders to meet its demands for racial justice; the affected white business owners sued the NAACP and the action’s organizers for economic damages (line 203).
- The Supreme Court ruled the boycott constitutionally protected because it was composed of First Amendment elements — speech, assembly and petition (lines 203-205).
Related pages
Challenging Anti-Boycott Legislation in the US, NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., Anti-boycott legislation