Brenda Bacquie (holding tarp), daughter of Irene Morgan, and other family members unveil an official marker to the civil rights pioneer at the Middlesex County Courthouse in Saluda, Va., on Saturday. Dubbed “the Grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Morgan’s refusal to give up her seat on a bus 11 years before Rosa Parks led to a landmark Supreme Court decision in 1946 outlawing segregation in interstate travel. (Photo by Julia Cheng / For the News Tribune)
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