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On April 23, 1951, sixteen-year-old Barbara Rose Johns led a student walkout at Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville. The demonstrators were protesting the overcrowded and inferior conditions of the all-black school in comparison to the facilities offered to white students at nearby Farmville High School. Historians consider this strike a pivotal moment in launching the desegregation movement in America. This photograph shows Barbara Johns twenty-eight years later, when she was married and went by the name Barbara Johns Powell.
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