Moral Courage

Irene Morgan

• She did not want to move to the back of the greyhound bus for a white person, so she fought to stay.
• This happened in July of 1944. She said that she did not want to pick a fight, but because she paid for her seat and was not feeling well, she refused. She was also in the area of colored people.
• She was jailed for resisting and violating Virginia's segregation law.
• She went to Supreme Court in 1946.
• Her case was argued by Thurgood Marshall, the chief council of the NAACP and later an Associate Supreme Court Justice.
• The action resulted in a landmark ruling in 1946, which stuck down state laws requiring segregation in situations involved interstate transportation.
• She helped build the B-26 Marauders.
• She died August 10th, 2007. The cause was complications of Alzheimer's disease.