Morgan v. Virginia
Morgan v. Virginia | |
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Court membership | |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Reed, joined by Black, Frankfurter, Douglas, Murphy |
Concurrence | Black |
Concurrence | Frankfurter |
Concurrence | Rutledge |
Dissent | Burton |
Jackson took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. |
Morgan v. Virginia, 328 U.S. 373 (1946), is a major
The case was argued by
Background
"If something happens to you which is wrong, the best thing to do is have it corrected in the best way you can," said Irene Morgan, the African-American plaintiff who was arrested in Virginia for refusing to move from the "White" to the "Colored" section on a Greyhound interstate bus. "The best thing for me to do was to go to the Supreme Court."[5]
In 1944, at the time of the incident, she was working at a defense contractor, the aircraft manufacturer Glenn L. Martin Company, based in
Aftermath
In 1960, in Boynton v. Virginia, the Supreme Court extended the Morgan ruling to bus terminals used in interstate bus service. But the Southern states refused to comply and continued to eject or arrest African Americans who tried to use restrooms, waiting areas and cafeterias or lunch counters reserved for whites in such facilities, as Southern states refused to obey Morgan v. Virginia.[7]
The efforts of the Freedom Riders in 1961 were undertaken in part to challenge the ineffectual adherence to this ruling in a number of the states in the Deep South.
References
- ISBN 978-0195379396– via Google Books.
- ^ "Morgan v. Virginia (June 3, 1946)". www.encyclopediavirginia.org. Retrieved November 4, 2015.
- ^ "Milestones," August 27, 2007 edition of TIME Magazine at p. 23.
- ^ "Jim Crow Stories: Richard Wormser, "'Morgan v. Virginia' (1946)" , The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, 2002, PBS, accessed 5 February 2013
- ^ Setegn, Lea (February 13, 2002). "Irene Morgan". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Archived from the original on February 7, 2018. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
- ^ Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures, William Morrow, 2016, p. 44
- ^ "Equal Access to Public Accommodations" – The Civil Rights Movement in Virginia Archived 2013-05-31 at the Wayback Machine, Virginia Historical Society
External links
- Text of Morgan v. Virginia, 328 U.S. 373 (1946) is available from: CourtListener Justia Library of Congress