Boynton, Bruce

Biography:

African American law student from Selma, Alabama and petitioner in Boynton v. Virginia, in which the Supreme Court ruled that his 1958 arrest for refusing to leave a whites-only section in a bus station restaurant violated the Interstate Commerce Act, and the Equal Protection, Due Process, and Commerce Clauses of the U.S. Constitution.

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