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November 24, 2024

Farmville: Student-led walkout

Student Barbara Rose Johns organized her Moton High classmates in Prince Edward County and led a walkout in protest of the conditions, gaining the attention of the NAACP and two Howard University-trained attorneys, Spotswood Robinson and Oliver Hill. They took on their case and filed suit, becoming one of the cases consolidated into Brown v. Board.

Several rows of desks in a classroom. the vast majority are occupied by students. A round, metal device sits in the center-back of the classroom with a large pipe extending up and across the wall

R. R. Moton High School’s English 9 class, used as Defendant’s Exhibit No. 60, in the civil rights case Dorothy E. Davis et al. v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia.

Image source: National Archives Catalog

Kathy Mendes

kathy@thecommonwealthinstitute.org

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