Irene Morgan (b. 1917) was an important predecessor to Rosa Parks in the successful fight to overturn segregationist laws in the United States. Like the more famous Parks, but 11 years earlier, in 1944, the 27-year-old Morgan was arrested and jailed for refusing to give up her seat on an interstate Greyhound bus to a white person. In July 1944, Morgan was a 27-year-old mother of two, living in Gloucester County, Virginia. Wikipedia
In the spring of 1946, Irene Morgan, a black woman, boarded a bus in Virginia to go to Baltimore, Maryland. www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_morgan.html
Irene Morgan was feeling poorly the muggy July morning when her refusal to bow to bigotry would alter history. www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&...
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