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.

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