Originally Posted by Artkansas

I don't think you lived in the South in the early '60s, or you would remember; and I think you missed Bro Max's point. He was responding to Pedex commenting about store manager's claims to have the right to do as they please within their store, in our case, impounding our backpacks. He was pointing out that in the '60s store owners claimed that they had the right to do as they please within their stores. And Civil Rights protesters proved that they did not. And Bro Max was right on target.

Since this is Black History Month, its good to remember that on February 2, 1960 twenty-five men and four women entered the Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina and did a sit-in . They protested the idea that store owners could do as they pleased. In their case it was store owners forbidding people to enter their stores on the basis of their skin color. But it proves the point that store owners don't necessarily have free reign to do what ever they want in their store.