Montgomery bus boycott Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===''Morgan v. Virginia'' decision=== {{Main|Morgan v. Virginia}} The [[NAACP|National Association for the Advancement of Colored People]] (NAACP) had accepted and litigated other cases, including that of [[Irene Morgan]] in 1946, which resulted in a victory in the Supreme Court on the grounds that segregated interstate bus lines violated the [[Commerce Clause]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/road/s19.cfm |title=The Road to Civil Rights: Journey of Reconciliation |author=''[[United States Department of Transportation]]'' ''[[Federal Highway Administration]]'' |publisher=dot.gov |date=October 17, 2013}}</ref> That victory, however, overturned state segregation laws only insofar as they applied to travel in interstate commerce, such as interstate bus travel,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_morgan.html |title=The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: MORGAN v. Virginia (1946) |author=Public Broadcasting Service |publisher=pbs.org |year=2002 |author-link=Public Broadcasting Service}}</ref> and Southern bus companies immediately circumvented the ''Morgan'' ruling by instituting their own [[Jim Crow laws|Jim Crow regulations]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pl409yBEjfsC&pg=PA103 |title=Justice Older Than the Law: The Life of Dovey Johnson Roundtree |first1=Katie |last1=McCabe |first2=Dovey Johnson |last2=Roundtree |publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]] |isbn=978-1617031212 |page=103 |year=2009}}</ref> Further incidents continued to take place in Montgomery, including the arrest of [[Lillie Mae Bradford]] for disorderly conduct in May 1951 for allegedly refusing to leave the white passengers' section until the bus driver amended an incorrect charge on her transfer ticket.<ref name=borger>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/apr/04/usa.julianborger |title=Civil rights heroes may get pardons |first=Julian |last=Borger |date=April 3, 2006 |access-date=March 23, 2017 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page