Civil Rights Pioneer, Who Just Wanted a Burger, Made History

Bruce Boynton is a civil rights pioneer most people have never heard of. History books tell the story of his lawyer Thurgood Marshall, the first black U.S. Supreme Court justice, and Rosa Parks, who wouldn't give up her bus seat to a white man. Many even recall Boyton's mother, Amelia Boynton Robinson, who was savagely beaten while demonstrating for voting rights in 1965 and was honored by then-President Barack Obama 50 years later. Yet Boynton is largely unknown, a historic...

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