Barbara Rose Johns, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetBarbara Rose Johns
American activist
Date of Birth: 06-Mar-1935
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 25-Sep-1991
Profession: librarian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Barbara Rose Johns
- Barbara Rose Johns Powell (March 6, 1935 – September 25, 1991) was a young, American civil rights leader-pioneer and the niece of one of the "fathers of the Civil Rights Movement," Vernon Johns.
- On April 23, 1951, at the age of 16, Powell led a student strike for equal education at R.R.
- Moton High School in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia.
- After securing NAACP legal support, the Moton students filed Davis v.
- Prince Edward County, the largest and only student initiated case consolidated into Brown v.
- Board of Education, the landmark 1954 U.S.
- Supreme Court decision declaring "separate but equal" public schools unconstitutional.
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