In a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court last week upheld the 1963 conviction of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and seven other Negro civil rights leaders for defying an Alabama state court injunction against a civil rights march in Birmingham. King, whose group had been denied a parade license by burly "Bull" Connor, then Birmingham's commissioner of public safety, was sentenced by an Alabama court to a five-day jail term and $50 fine for carrying out the march despite the restraining order. Reviewing the case, the Supreme Court majority took the position that...
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