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Robert Russa Moton. 1907, Public Domain In 1922, former President and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Howard Taft elected Robert Russa Moton to give the chief address at the dedication ...
18. Mai 2018 · Robert Russa Moton [1] (mō´tən), 1867–1940, black American educator, b. Amelia co., Va., grad. Hampton Institute, 1890. He was commandant (1890–1915) of Hampton Institute, then principal and president of Tuskegee Institute until 1935.
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Robert Russa Moton High School. National Alumni Association -- P.O. Box 1356 -- Leeds, Alabama 35094. 3. Like. Comment. Share. Did you miss the RR Moton High School 2021 prerecorded and virtual class reunion or just want to see it again… here is the link.
The Robert Russa Moton Museum is the national center for the study of Civil Rights in Education. Named a National Historic Landmark in 1998, it was the site of the first non-violent student demonstration (1951), an action that led to the Brown vs. Board of Education case before the U.S. Supreme Court which mandated equal education for all Americans.
On April 23, 1951, a group of Moton High School students walked out of their school and into history. To protest the overcrowded and inferior facilities at their school, 16-year-old Barbara Johns, niece of civil rights pioneers the Rev. Vernon Johns, organized and led a two-week strike during which students refused to attend classes.
23. Apr. 2021 · Today—April 23, 2021—marks the seventieth anniversary of the 1951 Moton School Strike in Farmville, Virginia, the student-organized walkout led by sixteen-year-old high school junior Barbara Johns (1935-1991) that propelled the long battle for the desegregation of public schools in Virginia and the nation. Before the teenagers at Robert ...
