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Irene Morgan Kirkaldy (Baltimore, 1917 – Nueva York, 10 de agosto de 2007) fue una pionera del movimiento por los Derechos Civiles en Estados Unidos. Fue conocida por haber sido detenida en 1944 tras negarse a ceder su asiento de autobús a una pareja blanca y por su resistencia al arresto (que incluyó su agresión al agente que la detuvo).
Irene Amos Morgan (April 9, 1917 – August 10, 2007), 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.
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- August 10, 2007 (aged 90), Gloucester County, Virginia, U.S.
15 de sept. de 2019 · Irene Amos Morgan Kirkaldy was a civil rights activist who won her 1946 U.S. Supreme Court case in Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia , which declared interstate transport racial segregation to be unconstitutional, nearly a decade before the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
13 de ago. de 2007 · Aug. 13, 2007. Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, whose defiance of white supremacy while traveling through the Upper South in the summer of 1944 led to a Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated...
Quick Look at Morgan-Kirkaldy. We've all heard of Rosa Parks, and some of us have even heard of Claudette Colvin, but Irene Amos Morgan-Kirkaldy was truly the first woman to refuse to give up her seat for a White passenger on a bus, and she laid the foundation for the people to come after her.
19 de ago. de 2007 · August 19, 2007. Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, a black Seventh-day Adventist woman who won a landmark United States Supreme Court case against segregated seating on interstate buses after refusing to give up her own bus seat in 1944, died August 10. She was 90.
Irene Morgan Kirkaldy ( Baltimore, 1917 – Nueva York, 10 de agosto de 2007) fue una pionera del movimiento por los Derechos Civiles en Estados Unidos. Fue conocida por haber sido detenida en 1944 tras negarse a ceder su asiento de autobús a una pareja blanca y por su resistencia al arresto (que incluyó su agresión al agente que la detuvo).
