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  1. On July 16, 1944, Irene Morgan defied Virginia authorities by refusing to change her seat on a segregated bus in Virginia. Morgan was traveling from Virginia to Maryland, when she was told by authorities that she had to move to the back of the bus. On her way for a doctor’s appointment and already sitting in the area designated for Black ...

  2. Morgan was born in Baltimore in 1917 and during World War II worked in a factory that produced B-26 bombers. On July 16, 1944, after visiting her mother in Virginia, she boarded a Greyhound bound for Baltimore.

  3. Mrs. Irene Morgan Kirkaldy died on August 10, 2007 at the age of 90. Rest in peace, Sister. 1 It was before the death of her first husband and subsequent remarriage, and her name was Irene Morgan. It would later be Irene Morgan Kirkaldy. 2 The woman sitting next to Morgan was holding a young baby. Not only did Morgan refuse to obey the bus ...

  4. 21. Aug. 2017 · On the Bus a Decade Before Rosa Parks. Irene Morgan's 'back of the bus' case went to the Supreme Court in 1946, well before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. by Daniel B. Moskowitz 8/21/2017. Freedom Ride Departing Tidewater Virginia for Baltimore in July 1944, Irene Morgan boarded a Greyhound 1937 Supercoach much like this. (Greyhound Inc.)

  5. 19. Aug. 2007 · Born Irene Amos in Baltimore in 1917, Kirkaldy later had two children with husband Sherwood Morgan. After suffering a miscarriage at age 27, she visited her mother in Gloucester to recuperate. It was early in the five-hour bus ride back home that the driver told her to give up her seat to a white couple. Already sitting in the assigned section ...

  6. 20. Aug. 2020 · Irene Morgan was a civil rights activist who, a decade prior to Rosa Parks' landmark case, won her own U.S. Supreme Court Case in 'Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia,' which declared interstate transport racial segregation to be unconstitutional. Irene Amos Morgan Kirkaldy (April 9, 1917 – August 10, 2007)…

  7. Irene Morgan. Civil Rights Pioneer. 1917–2007 A.D. The name of Rosa Parks is familiar to all of us since she was the Black woman who in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus. Indeed, this gesture not only attracted national attention, but it also became a symbol of protest against racial ...