Irene Morgan

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Irene Morgan was an African American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat led to the landmark 1946 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down segregation in interstate bus travel.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Irene Morgan canonical 3
Irene Morgan Kirkaldy 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf African American
U.S. Supreme Court case
civil rights activist
human
arrestedIn Gloucester County, Virginia
surface form: Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
arrestedOnChargeOf violating Virginia segregation laws on interstate buses
awardReceived Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary)
Presidential Citizens Medal
honorary degree from Gloucester County’s Rappahannock Community College
honorary degree from St. John’s University, New York
burialPlace Calvary Seventh-day Adventist Cemetery, Virginia, United States
causeOfFame Morgan v. Virginia
surface form: U.S. Supreme Court case Morgan v. Virginia (1946)
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
court Supreme Court of the United States
dateOfBirth 1917-04-09
dateOfDeath 2007-08-10
decisionDate 1946-06-03
defendant Commonwealth of Virginia
ethnicGroup Black Americans
surface form: African American
familyName Kirkcaldy
surface form: Kirkaldy

Morgan
fullName Irene Morgan self-linksurface differs
surface form: Irene Morgan Kirkaldy
givenName Irene
hasOccupation civil rights activist
factory worker
hasResidence Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Gloucester County, Virginia
surface form: Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
holding state laws requiring segregation on interstate buses are unconstitutional
honoredBy Library of Virginia
Virginia Women in History program
influenced Montgomery bus boycott
later bus desegregation cases
knownFor being a precursor to the Montgomery bus boycott
refusing to give up her seat on an interstate bus in Virginia in 1944
legalCase Morgan v. Virginia
movement American civil rights movement
notableWork Morgan v. Virginia
surface form: Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia
numberOfChildren 6
participantIn Morgan v. Virginia
surface form: Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia

American civil rights movement
surface form: civil rights movement
placeOfBirth Baltimore, Maryland, United States
placeOfDeath Gloucester County, Virginia
surface form: Gloucester County, Virginia, United States
plaintiff Irene Morgan self-linksurface differs
religion Seventh-day Adventist Church
surface form: Seventh-day Adventist
sexOrGender female
spouse Sherwood Morgan
Stanley Kirkaldy
subjectOf segregation in interstate bus travel

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Irene Morgan
Description of subject: Irene Morgan was an African American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat led to the landmark 1946 U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down segregation in interstate bus travel.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Morgan v. Virginia hasParty Irene Morgan
Morgan v. Virginia involvedPerson Irene Morgan
Irene Morgan fullName Irene Morgan self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Irene Morgan Kirkaldy
Irene Morgan plaintiff Irene Morgan self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Morgan v. Virginia