One of the first stories on civil rights pioneer Irene Morgan of Gloucester appeared in the Southside Sentinel on January 16, 1992. That story is reprinted below to celebrate Black History Month. by Tom Chillemi –  One of the most important challenges to segregation happened in Middlesex County on a hot July day in 1944. On that afternoon in Saluda, a 26-year-old black woman, Irene Morgan, tested Virginia’s segregation law when she refused to move and give her bus seat to a white person. In doing so Morgan stood up to a Virginia law that would be declared unconstitutional two years later by the U.S. Supreme Court. The law in Virginia and several other states in the mid-1940s was that blacks were to sit only in the back of the bus. In July...