Bruce Boynton was a civil rights activist whose 1960 landmark Supreme Court case inspired the iconic Freedom Rides.Boynton was a law student at Howard University when he was arrested while traveling home to Selma, Alabama for the holidays.
He was dining at a bus station restaurant designated “whites only” and when he failed to leave when ordered to, Boynton was sent to jail for the night.
Aware that the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 prohibited discrimination in interstate travel, Boynton went to court, with future U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908 – 1993) as his lawyer. Appealing all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Boynton ultimately won, with the court asserting that the Interstate Commerce Act applied in bus stations.
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