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Boynton vs. Virginia Supreme Court Segregation Case...
Boynton vs. Virginia Supreme Court Segregation Case...
Item # 712769
December 06, 1960
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Dec. 6, 1960
* Boynton v. Virginia SCOTUS decision
* Racial segregation at bus terminals illegal
* Blacks allowed to use accommodations there
The front page has: "Bus Terminal Segregation Curbed by Supreme Court", with is followed by considerable details about the (Bruce) Boynton vs. Virginia SCOTUS case , and continues on an inside page. See images for details.
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day are found throughout.
Appears to be complete in 82 pages (a back advertising leaf may be missing), slightly rough left spine margin (from being disbound from an institution/library volume) even toning - quite nice.
Background: Wikipedia states the case was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court. The case overturned a judgment convicting an African American law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant in a bus terminal which was "whites only". It held that racial segregation in public transportation was illegal because such segregation violated the Interstate Commerce Act, which broadly forbade discrimination in interstate passenger transportation. It moreover held that bus transportation was sufficiently related to interstate commerce to allow the United States federal government to regulate it to forbid racial discrimination in the industry. Thurgood Marshall argued the case for Boynton. The majority opinion was written by Justice Hugo Black.
Category: The 20th Century
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