#OTD in 1944, Irene Morgan was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.
Later, in Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia, the Supreme Court held that state segregation laws were unconstitutional as applied to interstate bus travel.https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/jul/16 …
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