1. From the soapbox to the courthouse
Workers, wobblies, and radicals
Civil liberties lawyers, civil liberties law
A radical in court in the early cold war
2. The vagrancy law education of Ernest Besig
The many faces of vagrancy law in 1950s San Francisco
Constructing the vagrancy law problem
Solving the vagrancy law problem
3. Shuffling Sam Thompson and the Liberty End Cafe
The police as peacekeeper
A federal case at the Louisville Police Court, Winter 1959
Louis Lusky's litigation strategy
4. "For integration? : you're a vagrant"
Vagrancy regulation as racial regulation
An accidental army of vagrancy lawyers in the 1960s South
Lessons from the loitering case of a "notorious" civil rights leader
5. "Morals are flexible from one generation ... to another"
"Vag lewd" and the policing of homosexuality (continued)
The criminalization of idle poverty
6. "The most significant criminal case of the year"
Law student, murder suspect, vagrant
Vagrancy law, Stop & Frisk, and the relationship between them
Crime control at the Supreme Court, Fall 1967-Spring 1968
7. Hippies, hippie lawyers, and the challenge of nonconformity
Flashback, 1963 : a "spontaneous hootenanny" in Dupont Circle
The threat of a new counterculture
The constitutional appeal of the pie-baking hippie and the "banner year" of 1969
8. The beginning of the end of vagrancy laws
Race, crime, and vagrancy redux
Loitering, protest, and the importance of facts
Close encounters with the Anti-war Movement, Sprint 1971
9. "Vagrancy is no crime"
Constitutionalizing the vagrancy law challenge, Winter 1972
Papachristou and the long 1960s.
