Barbara Rose Johns Powell
Lahir	(1935-03-06)6 Maret 1935 New York City, New York
Meninggal	25 September 1991(1991-09-25) (umur 56) Philadelphia, PA
Pekerjaan	Aktivis hak sipil, pustakawan
Dikenal atas	Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County R.R. Moton High School protest
Bronze Star Medal

Barbara Rose Johns Powell (6 Maret 1935 – 25 September 1991) adalah seorang pemimpin pionir dalam gerakan hak sipil Amerika Serikat dan kemenakan dari salah satu "bapak Gerakan Hak Sipil", Vernon Johns.^[1] Pada 23 April 1951, dalam usia 16 tahun, Powell memimpin unjuk rasa pelajar untuk pendidikan setara di R.R. Moton High School, Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia.

Lihat pula

• Claudette Colvin

Referensi

Bacaan tambahan

• Branch, Taylor (1989). Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63. Touchstone.
• Smith, Bob (1966). They Closed Their Schools: Prince Edward County, Virginia 1951–1964.
• John A. Stokes with Lois Wolfe, Students on Strike: Jim Crown, Civil Rights, 'Brown,' and Me, A Memoir, Washington, DC: National Geographic Press, 2008
• Richard Kluger,"Stick With Us," Simple Justice Vintage: 1974: 454–480.
• Kanefield, Teri, The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement, Harry N. Abrams, 2014

Pranala luar

• SNCC Digital Gateway: Barbara Johns Leads Prince Edward County Student Walkout Digital documentary website created by the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University, telling the story of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee & grassroots organizing from the inside-out
• The Barbara Rose Johns Memorial Site
• Barbara Rose Johns at the Moton Museum
• Jeffrey Zastow, "Who Was Barbara Johns?", Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition, January 2006
• Juan Williams, "Separate But Unequal: How a Student-Led Protest Helped Change the Nation", National Public Radio, 13 January 2004
• Queens College CORE (a history of the New York City chapters of the Congress of Racial Equality)