Barbara Rose Johns
Barbara Rose Johns Powell was a pioneering leader in the American civil rights movement. 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 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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Female
Date of Birth
March 6th, 1935
Age
91
Birth Place
United States of America, New York
Date of Death
September 25th, 1991
Died Aged
56
Star Sign
Pisces
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