Irene Morgan...
Her refusal to move from her Greyhound Bus seat on July 1944 in Jim Crow Virginia and subsequent U.S. Supreme victory secured by none other than the legendary NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall helped set the table for Rosa Parks, Dr. King and the Modern American Civil Rights Movement eleven years later...To learn more about this phenomenal woman please click on the following links:
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031771154358
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Morgan
http://www.robinwashington.com/jimcrow/2_journey.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/irene-morgan
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I hadn't ever heard of Irene Morgan before reading your excerpt. Thanks for being a minister of information, Brother Ron!
Lady Hill
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