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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

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Boynton’s victory inspired civil rights activists, known as the Freedom Riders, to travel on interstate buses in the South to test the Supreme Court’s ruling. So Congress, for the first time, passed a law authorizing the chief justice to hire an administrative assistant. The three television networks had enormous influence.

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