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spazzmann

(748 posts)
Sat Jul 6, 2013, 12:38 PM Jul 2013

Today in Peace and Justice history on July 6, 1944


Irene Morgan, a 28-year-old black woman, was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus eleven years before Rosa Parks did so. Her legal appeal, after her conviction for breaking a Virginia law (known as a Jim Crow law) forbidding integrated seating, resulted in a 7-1 Supreme Court decision barring segregation in interstate commerce. http://bit.ly/15mGVem

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