Monthly Archives: November 2020

Bruce Boynton, inspiration for Freedom Rides, dies at 83

Former Alabama state Sen. Hank Sanders, a friend of Boynton, said the civil rights lawyer and Alabama’s first black special prosecutor died of cancer in Selma earlier this week. Washington D.C. Byton’s place in the Freedom Rides movement began in 1958 when he was a student at Howard University Law …

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