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Barbara Rose Johns Powell (March 6, 1935 – September 28, 1991) was a leader in the American civil rights movement. On April 23, 1951, at the age of 16, Powell led a student strike for equal education opportunities at R.R. Moton High School in Farmville , Prince Edward County , Virginia .
Dec 12, 2022 · More than 70 years after the teenager moved a nation to end school segregation, her statue will replace Civil War Confederate commander Robert E Lee's inside the US Capitol. In 1951, Barbara...
May 8, 2019 · Yet if Barbara Johns, a 16-year-old student at Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, Va., was daunted, she did not show it as she announced the plan from the school’s...
As a teenager, Barbara Johns helped organize a strike that eventually led to the desegregation of schools in the United States. Barbara Rose Johns was born on March 6, 1935 in New York City.
Seizing the moment, on April 23, 1951, Barbara Johns – by then a sixteen-year-old high school student – led her classmates to strike in protest of the substandard conditions at Robert Russa Moton High School.
The Barbara Johns Story - About the civil rights pioneer and her case that became a major component of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, a ruling that declared racial segregation in public schools to be illegal.
Dec 21, 2022 · A civil rights memorial in Richmond, Virginia, honors 16-year-old activist Barbara Johns, who helped desegregate schools in the 1950s.
