In this Thursday, May 3, 2018 photo, Bruce Carver Boynton speaks at his home in Selma, Ala. Boynton, a civil rights pioneer from Alabama who inspired the landmark “Freedom Rides" of 1961, has died. He was 83. Former Alabama state Sen. Hank Sanders, a friend of Boynton’s, confirmed his passing Friday, Nov. 20, 2020.
SELMA, Ala. — Bruce Carver Boynton, a civil rights pioneer from Alabama who inspired the landmark “Freedom Rides” of 1961, has died. He was 83.Boynton was arrested 60 years ago for entering the white part of a racially segregated bus station in Virginia and launching a chain reaction that ultimately helped to bring about the abolition of Jim Crow laws in the South. Boynton contested his conviction, and his appeal resulted in a U.S.
The bus pulled into a station in Richmond, Virginia, for a break, and Boynton went inside to eat. Seeing that the part of the restaurant meant for blacks had water on the floor and looked “very unsanitary,” Boynton said he sat down in the “clinically clean” white area. He told the waitress he would have a cheeseburger and tea.
Convicted of trespassing, Boynton appealed and his case wound up before the Supreme Court. Thurgood Marshall, then the nation’s leading civil rights attorney and later on to become the first Black Supreme Court justice, was his counsel.
Safe passages RIP
Brave person when there actually was systemic racism.
R.I.P. Mr. Boynton thank you for your part of the GoodTrouble 🕊 🕯 💫
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😢RIP
This guy was a hero. Travel well Sir...
nhannahjones Integrity. Godspeed 🕊️
nhannahjones Thank you, Mr. Boynton. I have more reading to do of your action and to say your name in the role you played. Rest in Power.
There is. Stop playing victim
nhannahjones Thank you sir, for you sacrifices for me! May your legacy live on! OneLove
nhannahjones 2020 is relentless RIP Bruce Carver Boynton
God bless him
Rest In Power. ✊🏾
Deepest Sympaties to his loved ones
Thank you, Mr. Boynton. As a white male born far after the civil rights era, I am saying your name out loud today. May God bless you. America is better today because of you.
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Salute and RIP. hero
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RIP to a legend. He endured what few could. If there's an afterlife, he and John Lewis are sipping a bourbon and drinking to Trump's demise
RIP
Thank you sir. We will continue the good work.
RIP
Trump is an extraordinary President of the United State of America; the Electoral Commission is questionable and answerable to American citizens. The Supreme Court is expected to decide on the election. Because the conduct/process of the election 2020 is challenge.
R.I.P. Sir. The fight continues.
RIP
If you haven’t read michaelharriot thread about his mom Amelia Boynton and Bruce Boynton you’re missing out! Riveting!
Hero.
NicoleCarrWSB we have lost so many heroes this year. 😢
RIP
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