On 23 April 1951, 16-year-old schoolgirl Barbara Johns led her fellow pupils in a walkout against racist and substandard conditions in her school in Prince Edward County, Virginia. The school was one of the case studies examined by the Supreme Court which eventually declared segregation unconstitutional. However rather than desegregate, the local school board closed all of its schools, and the private schools which local white children attended instead did not desegregate until 1986. This is a short history of the student strike and its consequences: https://libcom.org/history/prince-edward-county-school-strike-1953.
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