@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social
Post #2025305
2026-04-23 23:07 UTC
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.
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@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social 2026-04-23 23:09
Taylor Branch, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, argues that Barbara wasn’t given credit because she was a child. I’ll add that she wasn’t recognized because she was a girl, poor, and black—what scholars call the “triple invisibility.” I believe I am still the author of the only book written about Barbara Johns. Today there are monuments and museums in her honor. But when I started writing this book in 2021 (wait, what??? that long ago!) 3/