The Kress building in Baton Rouge was the site of that city's first civil rights sit-in, which event helped save it from the wrecking ball 45 years later.

"If the same rules had applied to civil rights sit-ins at lunch counters, on buses, people would probably still be in jail today."

He participated in civil rights sit-ins at Berkeley and in the South, and the Free Speech Movement.

The student, James M. Lawson Jr., had been dismissed on grounds that he advocated civil disobedience as a leader of a civil rights sit-in in Nashville.

Brenner was arrested three times during civil rights sit-ins in the San Francisco Bay Area.

During the 1960s, the Woolworth's Store in Lexington ended practices of segregation as a result of successful local civil rights sit-in.

A 45-year-old Jewish attorney given to wearing shorts while leading civil rights sit-ins, he moves through 1964 San Francisco with a panache that has made him a local celebrity.

His taste for controversy included participating in civil rights sit-ins at Berkeley and in the South and defending the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in 1964.

So the justices wanted answers to these questions: If the clinic blockades could be regarded as "racketeering activity," what about civil rights sit-ins or labor unrest?

An aggressive and gifted organizer, Farmer led America's first civil rights sit-ins for racial integration.