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American Experience | Freedom Riders: Freedom to Travel, part 2 | PBS

Duration: 00:52
Program: Freedom Riders: American Experience #2311

Ray Arsenault discusses the importance of Irene Morgan, who took her case to the Supreme Court with Morgan vs. Virginia. However, the subsequent Supreme Court ruling of the unconstitutionality of segregated interstate bus travel, Julian Bond points out, was largely ignored in the segregated South.

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Post Date: September 21, 2010