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Bookmark or Share- Biography: Barbara Rose Johns Powell, 1935–1991 - Moton MuseumBarbara Rose Johns, a civil rights activist, was one of the key figures in Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka. Learn more about her life and work.
- Overlooked No More: Barbara Johns, Who Defied Segregation in SchoolsOverlooked No More: Barbara Johns, Who Defied Segregation in Schools. At 16, Johns led a strike by the student body that ultimately became one of five court cases consolidated into Brown v....
- Barbara R. Johns | National Women's History MuseumAs a teenager, Barbara Johns helped organize a strike that eventually led to the desegregation of schools in the United States. Barbara Rose Johns was born on March 6, 1935 in New York City. Like many African Americans, her parents had migrated up north to find work during the Great Depression and as part of the Great Migration.
- Barbara Rose Johns Powell - Encyclopedia VirginiaBarbara Rose Johns was born on March 6, 1935, in New York City, the first of Violet Adele Spencer Johns and Robert Melvin Johns’s five children. The young couple had moved to Harlem from their birthplaces in Prince Edward County to find work during the Great Depression.
- Barbara Johns: The US' forgotten civil rights hero - BBCMore than 70 years after the teenager moved a nation to end school segregation, her statue will replace Civil War Confederate commander Robert E Lee's inside the US Capitol. In 1951, Barbara...
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