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Supreme court rulingin favor of Irene Morgan, who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a greyhound on her way to Balitmore. The case began on July 16, 1944 and ended int he supreme court ruling that segregation on interstate buses was against the constitution.
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"National Guardsmen boarded the bus with fixed bayonets on their rifles. They stood the length of the bus in the aisle. I said to one of them, 'Man, that's a mighty fancy rifle you've got there.'
His response was, 'I ain't got one word to say to you.' [laughs]
'Yeah,' I said to myself, 'These are our protectors.'" --Mattew Walker, Jr. -
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