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Bruce Carver Boynton (June 19, 1937 – November 23, 2020) was an American civil rights leader who inspired the Freedom Riders movement and advanced the cause of racial equality by a landmark supreme court case Boynton v. Virginia.
- Boynton v. Virginia
- Civil rights activist
- American
- June 19, 1937, Selma, Alabama, U.S.
Jan 13, 2021 · Learn how Bruce Boynton, a black law student and civil rights activist, refused to leave a "whites only" restaurant in Richmond, Virginia and challenged the Interstate Commerce Act in a Supreme Court case that inspired the Freedom Rides of 1961. Find out more about his life, career, and records related to his case at the National Archives.
Nov 27, 2020 · Bruce Boynton, Plaintiff in Landmark Civil Rights Case, Dies at 83 - The New York Times. He was a Black man who wanted to sit in the white section of a bus terminal restaurant. The case reached...
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Nov 27, 2020 · CNN — Bruce Boynton, a civil rights icon who helped inspire the historic Freedom Rides of 1961, has died at 83. The civil rights attorney and Alabama’s first Black special prosecutor passed...
Nov 25, 2020 · By The Associated Press. SELMA, Ala. — Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer from Alabama who inspired the landmark “Freedom Rides” of 1961, died Monday. He was 83.
Nov 24, 2020 · Alabama civil rights icon Bruce Boynton, who helped inspire the Freedom Riders movement when he ordered at a whites only section of a restaurant, has died. He was 83.
Nov 24, 2020 · SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer from Alabama who inspired the landmark “Freedom Rides” of 1961, has died. He was 83. Former Alabama state Sen. Hank Sanders, a...
