The correct answer is that protesters supported an unpopular view.
This case of Edward V. Carolina where the supreme court which held the amendments from first to fourteenth which forbaded the government state officials to force those crowds which were matching legally to the front side of the statehouse.
Supreme court arrested, punished, and convicted petitioners who were infringed the free right of petitioners freedom of petition and free assembly.
The supreme court then said that the rights are protected by fourteenth amendments and guaranteed by first amendment by the states