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Boynton vs. Virginia Supreme Court Segregation Case...
Boynton vs. Virginia Supreme Court Segregation Case...
Item # 722035
December 06, 1960
THE SPRINGFIELD UNION, Mass., Dec. 6, 1960
* Boynton v. Virginia SCOTUS decision
* Racial segregation at bus terminals illegal
* Blacks allowed to use accommodations there
The top of page 7 has a one column heading: "COURT UPHOLDS NEGRO PLEA ON FOOD SERVICE" with subhead. (see images)
Complete with 36 pages, light toning and a little wear along the spine, generally nice.
Background: Boynton v. Virginia (1960) was a pivotal Supreme Court decision in which the Court overturned the trespass conviction of Bruce Boynton, a Black law student arrested for refusing to leave a “whites-only” restaurant in a Richmond, Virginia bus terminal while traveling interstate. The Court held that because the restaurant served interstate bus passengers, it functioned as an integral part of the interstate transportation system and was therefore subject to the Interstate Commerce Act, which prohibits carriers and their related facilities from engaging in unjust discrimination. By ruling that racial segregation in these terminal facilities violated federal law—even when the facilities were privately owned—the Court extended earlier desegregation protections from buses themselves to the stations, waiting rooms, and eateries that supported interstate travel. This landmark decision not only expanded federal authority over segregation practices but also directly inspired and legally underpinned the Freedom Rides of 1961, as civil rights activists sought to test and enforce the ruling across the segregated South.
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