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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 .
Barbara Johns was a 16-year-old student who organized a strike in 1951 to protest the poor conditions of her segregated school in Virginia. Her action led to a legal challenge that became part of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case that ended school segregation in the US.
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...
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.
Barbara Johns was born in New York City in 1935, but grew up in Prince Edward County, Virginia, where blacks and whites had separate schools. In 1951, she led her fellow African-American high...
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.
