Boynton v. Virginia

(noun)

A 1960 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that overturned a judgment convicting an African American law student for trespassing by being in a restaurant in a bus terminal which was designated "whites only."

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Examples of Boynton v. Virginia in the following topics:

  • Sit-Ins and Freedom Rides

    • Out-of-state towns like Lexington, Kentucky and Richmond, Virginia also saw protests.
    • Supreme Court decision, Boynton v.
    • Virginia (1960) that prohibited segregation on interstate transportation and to protest segregated waiting rooms in southern terminals.
    • Their plan was to ride through Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, ending in New Orleans, Louisiana where a civil rights rally was planned.

  • The Supremacy Clause

    • In Ware v.
    • In Martin v.
    • In Ableman v.
    • In Cooper v.
    • In Edgar v.

  • The Battle of Fredericksburg

    • McClellan into action, he issued orders to replace McClellan in command of the Army of the Potomac in Virginia.
    • Lee at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland, but had not been able to destroy Lee's army, nor did he pursue Lee back into Virginia aggressively enough for Lincoln.
    • The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E.
    • Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside.
    • Burnside ordered the grand divisions of Major Generals Edwin V.

  • Racial Stratification

    • When they moved to Virginia shortly after their wedding, law enforcement decided to prosecute them, breaking into their home in the middle of the night and carrying them off to jail.
    • Both Mildred and Richard were from Virginia, where their extended family still lived.
    • Bazile, told the Lovings during their trial for miscegenation that, 'if God had meant for whites and blacks to mix, he would have not placed them on different continents. ' He also seemed to take pride in telling the Lovings, "as long as you live you will be known as a felon. " The Lovings eventually contacted the American Civil Liberties Union, who took their case to the Supreme Court in 1967, resulting in Loving v.
    • Virginia, which abolished miscegenation laws in the U.S.

  • The Warren Court

    • Brown v.
    • Brown v.
    • Gideon v.
    • Loving v.
    • Virginia (1967) invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage.The case was brought by Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, who had been sentenced to a year in prison in Virginia for marrying each other.

  • The Shifting Boundary between Federal and State Authority

    • Supreme Court's Reitman v.
    • Gutzman argues that the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798 by Jefferson and Madison were not only responses to immediate threats but were legitimate responses based on the long-standing principles of states' rights and strict adherence to the Constitution.
    • In Gonzales v.
    • In Gonzales v.

  • The Second Bull Run and the Battle of Antietam

    • Lee's Army of Northern Virginia against Union Maj.
    • John Pope's Army of Virginia, and a battle of much larger scale and numbers than the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) fought in 1861 on the same ground.
    • Fitz John Porter's V Corps, Longstreet's wing of 25,000 men in five divisions counterattacked in the largest, simultaneous mass assault of the war.
    • Nevertheless, Lee's invasion of Maryland was ended, and he was able to withdraw his army back to Virginia without interference from the cautious McClellan.

  • The U.S. Constitution

    • Delegates from these states supported the VIrginia Plan, crafted by James Madison, which included a system of proportional representation in Congress as well as an extension of congressional powers.
    • Debate over the Virginia v.
    • However, unlike the Virginia or New Jersey Plans, most other divisions in the Convention were sectional.
    • Finally, another source of inspiration for the Bill of Rights was the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which included provisions that restricted the reach of the government.

  • Affirmative Action

    • Some policies adopted as affirmative action, such as racial quotas or gender quotas for collegiate admission, have been criticized as a form of reverse discrimination, and such implementation of affirmative action has been ruled unconstitutional by the majority opinion in the case of Gratz v.
    • Affirmative action as a practice was upheld by the court's decision in Grutter v.
    • Slaves Waiting for Sale: Richmond, Virginia.

  • The Brown Decision

    • In 1954 Brown v.
    • Brown v.
    • Plessy v.
    • The case of Brown v.
    • School Board of Prince Edward County (filed in Virginia), Gebhart v.