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MORGAN v. VIRGINIA

No. 704.

328 U.S. 373 (1946)

MORGAN v. VIRGINIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 3, 1946.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Hastie and Thurgood Marshall argued the cause for appellant. With them on the brief was Leon A. Ransom.

Abram P. Staples, Attorney General of Virginia, argued the cause and filed a brief for appellee.

Briefs were filed as amici curiae by Gregory Hankin, Osmond K. Fraenkel and Arthur Garfield Hays for the American Civil Liberties Union, and by Harold A. Stevens for the Workers Defense League, in support of appellant.

MR. JUSTICE REED delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal brings to this Court the question of the constitutionality of an act of Virginia,1 which requires all passenger motor vehicle carriers, both interstate and intrastate,2 to separate without discrimination3 the white and colored passengers in their motor buses so that contiguous seats will not be occupied by persons...

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