Brown v. Louisiana, 383 U.S. 131 (1966), was a United States Supreme Court case based on the First Amendment in the U.S. Constitution.

It held that protesters have a First and Fourteenth Amendment right to engage in a peaceful sit-in at a public library.

In order to protest their denial of their right to equal treatment guaranteed by the Constitution, five African-Americans entered the Audubon Regional Library.

Fortas concluded that there was no evidence to support the use of the breach of the peace statute, and that the protest was considerably less disruptive than earlier situations that the Court had invalidated convictions—including Cox v. Louisiana.

Thus showing that he was not denied access or service, and discussed that there was no racial discrimination on the part of the library.