Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Virginia Civil Rights Memorial - Richmond, VA


On April 23, 1951, 16-year-old Barbara Johns and fellow students led a strike to protest the conditions at their racially segregated school. Under the leadership of Rev. L. Francis Griffin, students and parents contacted NAACP attorneys. The lawsuit that followed was brought before the U.S. Supreme Court and joined with four other cases as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954), in which the Court banned school segregation on the grounds that racially separate educational systems are inherently unequal and unconstitutional.

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