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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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Today in Peace and Justice history on July 6, 1944 (Original Post) spazzmann Jul 2013 OP

except Rosa Parks did NOT refuse to move to the back of the bus hfojvt Jul 2013 #1

17 July, 1944, Jackie Robinson arrested for refusing to move to back of military bus Brother Buzz Jul 2013 #2

hfojvt

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1. except Rosa Parks did NOT refuse to move to the back of the bus

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Sat Jul 6, 2013, 12:55 PM

Jul 2013

she was already in the back (colored) section of the bus. Rosa Parks refused to stand.

Brother Buzz

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2. 17 July, 1944, Jackie Robinson arrested for refusing to move to back of military bus

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Sat Jul 6, 2013, 01:00 PM

Jul 2013

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