As a 16 year old teenager, Barbara Johns helped organize a strike that eventually led to the desegregation of schools in the United States. Johns was frustrated and determined to make a change. On April 23, 1951, Johns organized youth in her school in Prince Edward County, Virginia, who felt the same way, and they developed a plan for a strike. Johns and other organizers first got teachers to bring their students to the auditorium where she encouraged both students and teachers to leave the school and not return until local officials agreed to build a new school building. Most students joined Johns and the other strike organizers. After a less-than-encouraging meeting with Superintendent Thomas J. McIlwaine, the students remained on strike. This protest led to a lawsuit. That lawsuit became one of the five consolidated into the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case that struck down legal segregation. Source: Women's History.org #BarbaraJohns #CivilRights #Trailblazers #Storie...