“ They assembled in a peaceful, orderly fashion in front of the City Hall to protest segregation. They carried signs to that effect and they sang patriotic and religious songs. Although white onlookers assembled, no violence or threat of violence occurred and traffic was not disturbed. After 15 minutes of this, they were arrested for failure to disperse upon orders. Here, as in Edwards and Fields, petitioners 'were convicted of an offense so generalized as to be, in the words of the South Carolina Supreme Court, 'not susceptible of exact definition. ”

“ Edwards established that the 'Fourteenth Amendment does not permit a State to make criminal the peaceful expression of unpopular views.' Ibid. As in Edwards, the South Carolina Supreme Court has here 'defined a criminal offense so as to permit conviction of the petitioners if their speech 'stirred people to anger, invited public dispute, or brought about a condition of unrest. ”

“ A conviction resting on any of those grounds may not stand.' (Terminiello v. Chicago, 337 U.S. 1, 5, 69 S.Ct. 894, 93 L.Ed. 1131.) ' Id., 372 U.S. at 238, 83 S.Ct. at 685, 9 L.Ed.2d 697. Accordingly certiorari is granted and the judgment is reversed. ”