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5. Aug. 2000 · Irene Morgan Kirkaldy. On July 16, 1944, twenty-seven-year-old Irene Morgan refused to yield her seat to a white passenger on a crowded Greyhound bus in Gloucester County, Viginia. Because the bus was bound for Baltimore, Morgan was arrested in violation of Virginia Jim Crow laws that mandated racially segregated seating on public conveyances.
14. Aug. 2007 · Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, whose defiance of bus segregation laws -- more than a decade before Rosa Parks' landmark case -- helped lay the foundation for later civil rights victories, died Friday at ...
15. Aug. 2007 · Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, who refused to give up her seat on a Southern bus more than 10 years before Rosa Parks, has died at the age of 90.
Irene Morgan, an African-American woman, boarded an interstate Greyhound bus in Gloucester County, Virginia, bound for Baltimore, Maryland. When ordered by the driver to sit at the rear of the bus, as required by Virginia law, Morgan refused. She was arrested and convicted in Virginia of a misdemeanor, and fined ten dollars. The Supreme Court ...
27. Jan. 2015 · Before Rosa Parks, a Woman Refused to Give Up Her SeatIn 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her actions were carefully planned as part of a civil rights protest against the city's segregated public transportation. Eleven years earlier, however, another African American woman, Irene Morgan, also refused to give up her seat, this time on a ...
3. Feb. 2020 · Image: Curtis Compton/Zuma Press. You’ve heard of Rosa Parks, but you probably don’t know the name Irene Morgan. On July 16, 1944, Mrs. Morgan, 27, boarded a Greyhound bus at Hayes Store in ...
Irene Morgan Kirkaldy. (1917 - 2007) In July 1944, Irene Morgan Kirkaldy made a courageous decision that would turn into one of the first major advancements in the American Civil Rights Movement. Kirkaldy was born on April 9, 1917, in Baltimore, Maryland. On a July morning in 1944, Kirkaldy, recovering from a miscarriage, boarded a Greyhound ...
