Barbara Rose Johns, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Barbara 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


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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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