Irene Morgan
Female, Deceased Person
1917 – 2007
Who was Irene Morgan?
Irene Morgan, later known as Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, was an African-American woman who was arrested in Middlesex County, Virginia, in 1944 for refusing to give up her seat on an interstate bus according to a state law on segregation.
She consulted with attorneys to appeal her conviction. With the help of William H. Hastie, the former governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands and later a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and Thurgood Marshall, legal counsel of the NAACP, her case, Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 328 U.S. 373, was taken to the United States Supreme Court. In 1946 in a landmark decision, the Court ruled that the Virginia law was unconstitutional, as the Commerce clause protected interstate traffic.
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- Born
- Apr 9, 1917
Baltimore - Religion
- Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- St. John's University
- Lived in
- Baltimore
- Died
- Aug 10, 2007
Gloucester County
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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