Irene Morgan (April 9, 1917 – August 10, 2007), later known as Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, was an important predecessor to Rosa Parks in the successful fight to overturn segregation laws in the United States.Like the more famous Parks, but eleven years earlier, in 1944, the 27-year-old Baltimore-born Morgan was arrested and jailed in Virginia for refusing to give up her seat on an interstate Greyhound bus to a white person. In a 1946 landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-1 that Virginia's state law enforcing segregation on interstate buses was illegal.
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4 comments:
Wow, and I never heard of her. Now I can advise others of another black woman who refused before Rosa did.
We joked in school about black men also refusing but not read about, because the black men were instantly killed.
That's wrong to joke like that, isn't it?
I first read about this great lady unfortunately the way many of us do-in the obituaries. However I looked up more information about her and was blown away. She was something indeed and a true warrior.
What would we do without our women? I shudder to think.
I remember when Rosa Parks died, people lambasted her for being credited with that historic event AND they noted this lady in those scorn for Rosa posts. It wasn't RP's fault she was more publicized was my argument. HIStory has a weird way of doing that as we all know.
Grand on you MDC for continuing the HERstory once again.
Don,
Well as they say, sometimes we laugh to keep our sanity.
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Mr Shadow,
It's just to bad that more people don't know about her.
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Lady Di,
Those kind of feelings are uncalled for. People need to be more mature.
I'm glad you are enjoying the Black history month posts. :)
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