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VCU Black History Month Lecture -
"The Road to Brown: The Prince Edward County Student Strike, April
1951"
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
7:30 p.m.
Commonwealth Ballroom
VCU Student Commons
907 Floyd Avenue
Virginia Commonwealth University
Free and open to the public.
On April 23, 1951, African-American high school students at Robert
Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia, walked out of their school
in protest of the deplorable conditions there. It was the first such
school strike in America, and it ignited a chain of events that
eventually led to the historic Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme
Court decision in 1954. The courage and determination of the student
leaders at Moton High School inspired a movement for educational
equality and initiated the momentous decade-long struggle in Prince
Edward County that culminated in the closing of its schools in 1959.
Join Moton High School student leaders, civil rights activists and
historians in a discussion about the school walkout that changed civil
rights in America.
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
7:30 p.m.
Commonwealth Ballroom
VCU Student Commons
907 Floyd Avenue
Virginia Commonwealth University
Free and open to the public. Public parking is available in the West
Main Parking Deck, 801 W. Main Street. If special accommodations are
needed, please contact Kimberly Separ or Cletisha Lovelace at (804)
828-1105 or e-mail [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
Panelists:
Mr. John Stokes, civil rights activist and student at Moton High
School
Reverend Sammy Williams, minister, civil rights activist and student
at Moton High School
Ms. Joy Speakes, civil rights activist, student at Moton High School
Dr. Edward Peeples, emeritus professor, Virginia Commonwealth
University, and civil rights activist
Moderator:
Dr. John Kneebone, historian, author and professor, Virginia
Commonwealth University
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