Irene Morgan
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Irene Morgan
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Irene Amos Morgan, later known as Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, was an African-American woman from Baltimore, Maryland, who was arrested in Middlesex County, Virginia, in 1944 under a state law imposing racial segregation in public facilities and transportation. She was traveling on an interstate bus that operated under federal law and regulations. She refused to give up her seat in what the driver said was the "white section". At the time she worked for a defense contractor on the production line for
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African-American anti-segregation activist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Morgan
date created:
2004-02-26T13:23:49Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T15:10:01Z
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