![]() Yet there were those determined to do something about it.” Virginia, the court ruled that segregation in interstate travel was indeed unconstitutional as “an undue burden on commerce.” But though that the decision was now law, the southern states refused to enforce it, and Jim Crow continued as the way of life in the South. ![]() Instead of seeking a judgment on humanitarian grounds or the equal protection provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment, they made the seemingly arcane argument that segregation in interstate travel violated the Constitution’s Interstate Commerce Clause. Though the lawyers fervently believed that Jim Crow – the curious pseudonym for racial segregation – was unjust, they recognized the practice was still the law of the land, upheld by the 1896 Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. But her action caught the attention of lawyers from the NAACP, led by Thurgood Marshall, and in two years her case reached the Supreme Court. Like Parks, Morgan was arrested and jailed. Recovering from surgery and already sitting far in the back, she defied the driver’s order to surrender her seat to a white couple. “Eleven years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, a young woman named Irene Morgan rejected that same demand on an interstate bus headed to Maryland from Gloucester, Virginia. However, it is good to remind ourselves periodically of our history. The story of Irene Morgan has been told before-most comprehensively for an Adventist audience here. I hope both of these items have found a home where they will be preserved and made available (by digitization perhaps) to those interested. Why Evil was Permitted by Henry Smith Warleigh (New York: George Storrs, Circa ) SOLD for $146.50.God’s Memorial by James White (Battle Creek: Seventh Day Adventist Publishing Association, Not dated, circa 1870).Just to keep you up to date with the recent auctions on Ebay: To be remembered for one’s “goodness and serenity” is a fine epitaph. The book is quite long–353 pages, but it is worth reading. Vincent is of course referring to Henry’s conversion to Seventh-day Adventism at the age of 57 in 1896 The Church with which she spent her latest years is to be congratulated for the service she rendered, and for the memory of goodness and serenity she bequeathes to it.” (p8) She was, under her later confession, just what she was through all the years before,–a sweet, consistent, unselfish Christian. “Of her change of religious profession I say nothing. Vincent of the Methodist Episcopal Church–has the following comment: Interestingly, the introduction–written by Bishop John H. It is a biography of Henry by her daughter Mary Henry Rossiter titled My Mother’s Life (A Memoir of S. I’d just like to draw your attention to a wonderful resource that has just been added to the General Conference Archives online resources. Some months ago I posted briefly on Sarepta Myendra Irish Henry.
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