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   Teri Kanefield (teri_kanefield@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Apr-2026 09:23:55 JST Teri Kanefield

   Today is an important anniversary.

   75 years ago, on April 23, 1951, in Farmville, VA, Barbara Johns led a walkout of her segregated high school to protest the unfair and deplorable conditions of her school.

   What?! You don’t know who Barbara Johns was?

   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. After she and her classmates turned the rural town of Farmville upside down . . .

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