Post #1602439

2026-04-23 23:06 UTC

Today is an important anniversary. 75 years ago, on April 23, 1951, in Farmville, VA, Barbara Johns led a walkout of her segregated high school to protest the unfair and deplorable conditions of her school. What?! You don’t know who Barbara Johns was? She led her walkout more than 4 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, and before MLK, Jr. embraced nonviolence as the way to equality. After she and her classmates turned the rural town of Farmville upside down . . . 1/

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@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social 2026-04-23 23:07

she called in the NAACP. The NAACP took their case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Barbara and her classmates became plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case that ended segregation in America. Their case was combined with cases from other states. OK. Why wasn’t she given credit for her role as an early leader in the Modern Civil Rights movement and one of the first to use nonviolence as a means of achieving racial equality? It's 2026, so people probably know the answer. 2

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@jwbland@ohai.social 2026-04-24 02:04

@Teri_Kanefield I ❤️ Teri Kanefield.

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@Michaels_a_Dick@mastodon.social 2026-04-24 02:18

@Teri_Kanefield Courage of Convictions is rare and always welcome. And being a teacher staging the walk out on Shakespeare's Birthday should teach the world a global lesson.

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@Mediocreman@mastodon.social 2026-04-24 07:34

@Teri_Kanefield Thank God for Barbara and good people like her. #life #goodpeople

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@2003MugishaPhocit@mastodon.social 2026-04-24 13:57

@Teri_Kanefield congulaturations! We should always demand for our rights from those people who intend to violate them. #justice

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@disorderlyf@todon.eu 2026-04-24 16:46

@Teri_Kanefield It's disturbing how little I knew about this given how many people I know who live(d) in Farmville.

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