Irene Morgan Kirkaldy – On the Beaten path
She just recently passed away, and is probably one of the
more overlooked heroes on my list. However, in 1944, almost 20 years before
Rosa Parks, she refused to move to give up her seat on a bus to a white person,
forcing a change in the bus segregation laws of that time. Her co-counsel was
the indomitable Thurgood Marshall and they won by arguing that segregation was
a violation of the US Federal Commerce Clause. They were successful, but
Southern states refused to respect the ruling.
Though the changes she helped bring about were temporary,
her impact cannot be overlooked, especially as a role model for future
desegregation efforts. Her memory lives on in the myriad quiet revolutions that
are always taking place.
She was another in the long list of quiet heroes of that era
as seen below:
Greatest quote:
When something’s wrong, it’s wrong. It needs to be
corrected.
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