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(1/4) Junior Scholastic asked me to write a short piece about Barbara Johns. It's in the current edition.

What? You don’t know who Barbara Johns was?

She was 16 years old in Farmville, Virginia, in 1951. She led a walkout of her high school to protest segregation. . .
(2/4) Yes, before Rosa Parks and before MLK, Jr. embraced nonviolence as the way to equality.

After Barbara and her classmates turned the town upside down, the NAACP stepped in . . .

[You can read a version of the article here: terikanefield.com/1images/IMAGIN… ]
(3/4) Barbara and her classmates became plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education.

Why wasn’t Barbara given credit for the first protest of the modern Civil Rights movement?👇argues it was because she was a child.

I add she was a girl, poor, and African American. . .
(4/4) A quadruple invisibility, esp. in 1951.

Adding: I have written the only book about Barbara. (It won a few prizes. incl. the Jane Addams Book Award.)

I’m sure it’s in your local library. This one went far and wide.

(I love when people check my books out libraries)
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