Black Excellence: Barbara Rose Johns
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/16/nx-s1-5645727/barbara-rose-johns-capitol-statue
Her 1951 walkout helped end school segregation. Now her statue is in the U.S. Capitol
In 1951, a Black teenager led a walkout of her segregated Virginia high school. On Tuesday, her statue replaced that of a Confederate general in the U.S. Capitol.
Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she mobilized hundreds of students to walk out of Farmville’s Robert Russa Moton High School to protest its overcrowded conditions and inferior facilities compared to those of the town’s white high school.