Morgan v. Virginia
1946 United States Supreme Court case / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Morgan v. Virginia, 328 U.S. 373 (1946), is a major United States Supreme Court case. In this landmark 1946 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7–1 that Virginia's state law enforcing segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional.[1][2]
Morgan v. Virginia | |
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Argued March 27, 1946 Decided June 3, 1946 | |
Full case name | Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia |
Citations | 328 U.S. 373 (more) 66 S. Ct. 1050; 90 L. Ed. 1317 |
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Case opinions | |
Majority | Reed, joined by Black, Frankfurter, Douglas, Murphy |
Concurrence | Black |
Concurrence | Frankfurter |
Concurrence | Rutledge |
Dissent | Burton |
Jackson took no part in the consideration or decision of the case. |
The case was argued by William H. Hastie, the former governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands and later a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Thurgood Marshall of the NAACP was co-counsel; he later was appointed as a US Supreme Court justice.[3] Hastie and Marshall used an innovative strategy to brief and argue the case. Instead of relying upon the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment, they argued successfully that segregation on interstate travel violated the Interstate Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.[4] Virginia and other Southern states ignored the ruling, and continued with their practice of enforcing racial segregation in interstate transportation vehicles and facilities.