Day 1

Day One:
Richmond, VA – Farmville, VA – East TN

• We visit the Moton Museum in Farmville, VA to learn about the student strikes at the high school in 1951, the NAACP-sponsored Prince Edward County school desegregation case (with plaintiff Barbara Johns) that became one of the five cases rolled in to Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka, KS, [The Brown decision in 1954 struck down the “separate but equal” first upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson nearly sixty years early in 1896.], and PEC’s closing of the public schools for five years from 1959-1964 in its resistance to integration.


• At the museum, we hear a local history professor outline the history of the school desegregation movement, watch a video filled with oral histories from Moton students at the time, and speak with two students and activists from the time period.

Miles traveled today: 400
To date: 400

(We are *loving* the van! Just kidding…)