In 1951, Barbara Johns led her fellow students in a walkout to protest school segregation. She then began a lawsuit that became part of the significant Brown v. Board of Education case. Johns was born in New York City in 1935, but grew up in Prince Edward County, Virginia. At the time, the schools were […]
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