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+ (1). My community is Farmville,Virginia



(2).This community is rural, In 1951 African American students from school fought their battles for access to equal education. The students rallied their fellow classmates, and the entire community ,and NAACP attorneys to their case.

(3).The court case was Davis V. The School Board Of Prince Edward County.

(4). The plaintiff(s) was a ninth-grade student name Barbae Rose Johns organized a student strike to protest poor school conditions.

(5).There defendants were the school Board.

(6). The complaint was these “Tarpaper Shacks” became a symbol of all that was wrong with segregated education. The other complaint was that the school was over crowded, underfunded segregated schools for African American children.

(7).The lawyers that tried this case was the NAACP appealed the decision the U.S supreme court.

(8).The Supreme court herd the case. The decision was blacks were intellectually inferior to whites, it was there force in everyone’s best interest to separate the races. The federal district court up held segregation in Prince Edward County.

(9).The community members and institutions were important to this case were Spotswood, R obison, Oliver Hill, and Robert Carter. The importance was to help coordinate the testimony of sociologist and other expert witnesses.

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