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3 unusual facts about Irene Morgan


Irene Morgan

The activists divided themselves between the interstate Greyhound and Trailways bus lines.

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After exhausting appeals in state courts, she and her lawyers took her case on constitutional grounds to the federal courts, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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In 1944, the 27-year-old Irene Morgan was traveling to Baltimore, Maryland when she was arrested and jailed in Virginia for refusing to sit in a segregated section on an interstate Greyhound bus.



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