The Supreme Court

The Supreme CourtSam Thompson, a Negro handyman, was in a Louisville café waiting for a bus. Putting a dime in the jukebox, he began to shuffle to the music. Two policemen promptly arrested him for loitering. When Thompson protested, they added a charge of resisting arrest. He was convicted on both counts.A Louisville lawyer took Sam Thompson's case all the way up to the Supreme Court on the claim that his client had been deprived of his rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution:...