Civil Rights Memorial in Richmond – Encyclopedia Virginia
Created: July 2008, monument unveiling; March 26, 2011, photograph Medium: Public monument; digital photograph Civil Rights Memorial in Richmond Barbara Johns, a young Black civil rights protester, steps forward with her arm raised at the center of a section of the Civil Rights Memorial located on the grounds of the Virginia State Capitol. At the age of sixteen, Johns conceived and led a student walkout at the all-Black Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville to protest the inadequate facilities and opportunities at the segregated school. Behind her stand members of the Black community, i...
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