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Brown v. Board at 65: Joan Johns Cobbs Remembers the Day Her Sister Led a Student Protest That Went On to Change the Course of American History

Joan Johns Cobbs. (Courtesy of Recovering Untold Stories: An Enduring Legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education Decision)
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Joan Johns Cobbs is the sister of Barbara Johns, who led a student body strike against segregation that led to Virginia鈥檚 Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, one of five court cases that was ultimately consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education.

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