All Barbara Johns wanted was a decent high school.But like other Black children in Virginia during the Jim Crow era, she was forced to learn in an overcrowded, dilapidated building. Her school leaked when it rained and was so cold in winter that students wore coats and hats indoors. After the all-white school board ignored the Black community’s pleas for a new school, Johns secretly organized a student strike in 1951. What began with a 16-year-old girl’s demand for better learning conditions became part of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that ruled segregation of public...
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