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

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The Civil Rights Movement in the Mid-Atlantic

The strike was led by a student named barbara johns, who pointed out that her school had some 450 students crammed into one single story building. Tar paper shacks had been built outside to handle the overflow. The court case that resulted from this protest would eventually be bundled with other cases and lead to the landmark brown versus board of education ruling.

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