NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co.

The NAACP organized a boycott of white-owned businesses in Claiborne County, Mississippi to pressure government policies toward social change, using social pressure -- including publishing the names of Black residents who shopped at the boycotted businesses -- to encourage participation. The affected businesses (plaintiffs) sued the NAACP and individual boycott participants (defendants), and both the trial court and the Mississippi Supreme Court found the defendants liable for resulting damages.