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Gr 6 Up—This is the story of a Farmville, Virginia high schooler, who, in 1953, led a student strike for a better-built school on par with the building for white students. Although she was known as a quiet, reserved student, Johns was so incensed about the terrible conditions in which she and her classmates were required to learn that she engineered the exit of the principal from her school, mocked up a call to assembly, and then led students out on strike. She contacted the NAACP, which counseled t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

A heartfelt tribute to Barbara Rose Johns, a lesser-known heroine of the early civil rights movement. In 1951 Virginia, black ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This captivating volume sheds light on a lesser-known activist, Barbara Rose Johns, who, as a quiet and well-behaved sixteen-year-old, became an unlikely civil rights pioneer. In 1951, she fought to have the leaky, uninsulated “tar paper shacks,” used as classrooms at her all-black high school, replaced with facilities equal to the nearby white high school. Barbara’s determination and conviction are inspiring. Over a decade before Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. had...Log In or Sign Up to Read More