The NAACP took their case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Their case, called Brown v. Board of Education, was combined with cases from other states and became the landmark case that desegregated schools in the U.S.

https://history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka

She led her walkout more than 4 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, and before MLK, Jr. embraced nonviolence as the way to equality.

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OK so, why wasn’t she given credit for her role as an early leader in the Modern Civil Rights movement and one of the first to use nonviolence as a means of achieving racial equality in the US?

👇argues that Barbara wasn’t given credit because she was a child.

I'll add that she wasn't recognized because she was a girl, poor, and black—what scholars call the “triple invisibility.”

After her strike, her life was threatened and her family home was burned down.

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For years her family was afraid to talk about what she'd done.

I’m proud to be the author of the only book about Barbara Johns. (I think it's still the only one)

I had the honor of meeting her family members during a few research trips in Virginia and learning her story first hand.

She became a school librarian because of her passion for bringing quality education to children.

If anyone asked her about what she'd done, she talked about it.

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But for most of her life, nobody asked.

She died in 1991.

Things have changed. Today is designated Barbara Johns Day.

A Barbara Johns statute in Virgina, and check this out:
https://dhr.virginia.gov/blog-posts/barbara-rose-johns-maquette-approved-for-us-capitol/

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