http://www.library.vcu.edu/whatsnew/news_result.cfm?ID=512 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 To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html