Freedom Riders: Before Rosa Parks, There Was Irene Morgan

PBS Learning Media
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Classroom Material
Keywords
Civil Rights Movement Resistance Supreme Court decisions Jim Crow Segregation American South 1960s Legislation Legalized inequality State laws Black Americans Racism Derek Catsam Irene Morgan/Morgan vs. Virginia striking down interstate bus segregation Julian Bond arct14.socst.ush.fr06irenemorgan
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History-Social Science
Grade Levels
Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Grade 9 Grade 10 Grade 11 Grade 12 Post-Secondary
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Freedom Riders: Before Rosa Parks, There Was Irene Morgan

In 1944, Irene Morgan was arrested for refusing to sit in the back of an interstate bus. She fought her arrest, all the way to the Supreme Court.Excerpted from, American Experience: “Freedom Riders.”
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PBS Learning Media

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