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The Moton Walkout and the "Lost Generation" (1951)
It’s April 24th. This day in 1951, Black students at Robert Moton High School in Farmville, Virginia have walked out of school, staging a strike over poor conditions at their school, particularly when compared to the white school across town.
Jody, NIki, and Kellie talk about what motivated the school strike, and how the legal case around the walkout would eventually join up with other similar cases around the country and reach the Supreme Court in the landmark Brown v Board ruling.
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