Young civil rights activist Barbara Johns was a pioneering leader in the American civil rights movement. On April 23, 1951, at the age of 16, she led a student strike for equal education at segregated Moton High School in Virginia. The students stayed out in protest for two weeks, eventually gaining the support of the NAACP and becoming the only student-initiated case consolidated into Brown v Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision declaring “separate but equal” unconstitutional
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When Barbara Johns led a student walk out at her high school in 1951, she had no clue it would turn into a lawsuit demanding desegregation. She said it felt “like reaching for the moon.” Learn her story and others by listening to the Virginia episodes of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail podcast. Listen now through the link in bio. | Virginia is for Lovers
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