a mere ten days before Morgan’s fateful stop in Saluda, twenty-five-year-old Lieutenant Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson was accosted by a driver for not moving from his seat on an Army bus—despite the recent integration of all military transportation. Robinson’s furious reaction almost earned him a court-martial, but he was spared because he was already a star athlete (and this was three years before he broke professional baseball’s color barrier in 1947).
