The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 31, 2020
In December 1958, a Black law student attending Howard University tried to order a cheeseburger at a restaurant in a Virginia bus terminal. The man, Bruce Boynton, appealed his conviction all the way to the Supreme Court. In 1960, the court issued its landmark decision in Boynton v. Bruce Carver Boynton.
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