<span>"Shouting fire in a crowded theater"</span><span> is a popular </span>metaphor<span> for speech or actions made for the principal purpose of creating unnecessary panic. The phrase is a paraphrasing of </span>Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.<span>'s </span>opinion<span> in the </span>United States Supreme Court<span> case </span>Schenck v. United States<span> in 1919, which held that the defendant's speech in opposition to the </span>draft<span> during </span>World War I<span> was not protected </span>free speech<span> under the </span>First Amendment<span> of the </span>United States Constitution<span>.</span>
I know this because the black people were slaves and were all pretty poor because everyone at that time was racist and thought white people were superior but everyone should be treated the same.
They are many crimes that the poor people did, but the most common one was that the poor people use to steal things from the factory that led them to be jailed in the prison and use to get whipped and caned until they bled.
