Barbara Johns was 16 when she led her classmates at an all-Black high school in Virginia in protest of shabby conditions, leading to a lawsuit that became part of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case that eventually ended school segregation. After almost 70 years, a statue of Johns, who died in 1991, will...

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