Change did not come easily. After the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown, the local county school board chose to shut down the public schools rather than desegregate them.

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That case was one of several cases that were consolidated into what became known as Brown v. Board of Education. It was the only case arising from a student strike.

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Ms. Johns sought legal counsel, and the striking students' cause was eventually taken up by the NAACP, which filed a federal lawsuit in 1953 challenging racial segregation in schools.

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In 1951, Barbara Johns, at the age of 16, organized and led a peaceful student strike to protest the appalling conditions of her segregated high school. Her school was an overcrowded temporary tar paper structure that was heated with wood stoves and lacked indoor plumbing.

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Happy birthday to a true American hero, John Lewis.

I was very fortunate to be able to meet Rep. Lewis at a dinner where he was honored for his work in April 2018.

Today would have been Rep. Lewis' 85th birthday, and he is greatly missed.

#JohnLewisSelfie

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s work pursuing economic justice isn't often discussed as part of his legacy. I hadn't learned hardly anything about it until I read Dr. King's book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, in 2021.

That's when I first learned about Operation Breadbasket.