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February 25, 2019 By Fairfield Foundation

Irene Morgan: Virginia’s Freedom Fighter

Irene Morgan             In 1944, a woman named Irene Morgan was riding a bus from Hayes to her home in Baltimore.  Ms. Morgan was at a hard point in her life.  She was a mother to several children and had just suffered a painful and dangerous pregnancy ending in miscarriage.  After an operation associated with this, […]

Filed Under: Preservation Tagged With: 20th century, Black History Month, Civil Rights, Gloucester County, local history, Oral History

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