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Paired: The Moton School Strike (w/ Memory Palace)

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The School Board Meetings

Barbara johns was 16 when she led the first student-led walk out of school. She and her classmates wanted a new school for black students in farmville, Virginia. The strike lasted two weeks until their demands were met. It became one of five cases that would end school segregation under the name brown versus the board of education of tipeka, kansas.

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