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STUDENTS ON STRIKE: JIM CROW, CIVIL RIGHTS, BROWN, AND ME

Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Stokes
Author's First Name: 
John
Second Author's First Name: 
Lois
Second Author's Last Name: 
Wolfe
Publisher: 
National Geographic Society
Publication Date: 
2008

In 1951, John Stokes, a 19-year-old high school senior, led student strikers protesting the miserable condition of their segregated Virginia high school, an action that led to one of the court cases ending U.S. school segregation.