Barbara Rose Johns
Aktivis hak sipil Amerika Serikat
Barbara Rose Johns Powell (6 Maret 1935 – 25 September 1991) adalah seorang pemimpin pionir dalam gerakan hak sipil Amerika Serikat dan kemenakan dari salah satu "bapak Gerakan Hak Sipil", Vernon Johns.[1] Pada 23 April 1951, dalam usia 16 tahun, Powell memimpin unjuk rasa pelajar untuk pendidikan setara di R.R. Moton High School, Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia.
| Barbara Rose Johns Powell | |
|---|---|
| Lahir | 6 Maret 1935 New York City, New York |
| Meninggal | 25 September 1991 (umur 56) Philadelphia, PA |
| Pekerjaan | Aktivis hak sipil, pustakawan |
| Dikenal atas | Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County R.R. Moton High School protest |
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Lihat pula
suntingReferensi
sunting- ^ "State building named for student whose civil rights strike led to school changes". WTVR.com. 2017-01-13. Diakses tanggal 2017-03-01.
Bacaan tambahan
sunting- Branch, Taylor (1989). Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63
. Touchstone. - Smith, Bob (1966). They Closed Their Schools: Prince Edward County, Virginia 1951–1964 .
- John A. Stokes with Lois Wolfe, Students on Strike: Jim Crown, Civil Rights, 'Brown,' and Me, A Memoir, Washington, DC: National Geographic Press, 2008
- Richard Kluger,"Stick With Us," Simple Justice Vintage: 1974: 454–480.
- Kanefield, Teri, The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement, Harry N. Abrams, 2014
Pranala luar
sunting- SNCC Digital Gateway: Barbara Johns Leads Prince Edward County Student Walkout Digital documentary website created by the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University, telling the story of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee & grassroots organizing from the inside-out
- The Barbara Rose Johns Memorial Site
- Barbara Rose Johns at the Moton Museum
- Jeffrey Zastow, "Who Was Barbara Johns?", Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition, January 2006
- Juan Williams, "Separate But Unequal: How a Student-Led Protest Helped Change the Nation", National Public Radio, 13 January 2004
- Queens College CORE (a history of the New York City chapters of the Congress of Racial Equality)