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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

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Boynton’s victory inspired civil rights activists, known as the Freedom Riders, to travel on interstate buses in the South to test the Supreme Court’s ruling. United States , the court had to decide whether the Internal Revenue Service could revoke the tax-exempt status of private universities that engaged in racial discrimination.

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