23 Apr 1951 Jahr - 16 year old Barbara Johns led a student strike against inadequate facilities at overcrowded Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, VA.

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NAACP took the case when students agreed to seek integrated school rather than improve conditions at own black school. Attorneys Spotswood Robinson and Oliver Hill filed suit.
State court rejected the suit, verdict appealed to the Supreme Court. Combined with Oliver L. Brown et. al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas and three other suits.