Morgan Vs. Virginia Case: Morgan V. Irene Morgan

In the Morgan V Virginia case Irene Morgan, a negro woman got aboard led a motor common carrier from Gloucester County in the state of Virginia headed for Baltimore, Maryland. When she was asked to give up her seat to a white person and move to the back of the bus and a law in Virginia ordered. However, she refused to give away her seat stating that the bus she boarded was an interstate bus and that the Virginia law that demanded she give up her seat did not apply here. Upon refusal to give up her seat, Irene Morgan was arrested and charged, under a state law that imposed the segregation of passengers in public facilities and public transportations based on their race. In 1946, Irene was tried and convicted of being in violation of a Virginia segregation law on interstate buses and, was also fined $10. …show more content…
Courts had ruled against cases like that of Irene’s for a long time so it was not entirely a surprise when the ruling was not in her favor. However, Irene Morgan’s case taken up by lawyer Thurgood Marshall and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and they an appeal on her behalf in the U.S Supreme Court who then heard her case. With the help of her attorneys and the NAACP, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Irene’s case. In 1946, as the court ruled that the Virginia state law that demanded for the segregation of interstate passengers was in conflict with the power that congress possessed to control interstate