...Irene Morgan (Kirkaldy). Ms. Butler and James Strom Thurmond were the parents of Essa May Washington. Ms. Morgan was fined $10 dollars in for violating Virginia's "Jim Crow" law for her refusing to turn her seat over to a White person. NAACP lawyers Thurgood Marshall & William Hastie took Ms. Morgan's case, all the way to the Supreme Court, 1946 which ruled that, segregation on Interstate buses was illegal. (New York Post, page 22. Saturday, August 18, 2007. The death of Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, age 90 - 1917 - 2007)...