RICHMOND, VA (Rocktown Now) — Yesterday was the 75th Anniversary of the 1951 Moton High School Walkout in Farmville.

Governor Abigail Spanberger issued a proclamation honoring Barbara Rose Johns and the students of Robert Russa Moton High School for “exhibiting courage that helped spark the legal case that became part of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that declared segregated public schools unconstitutional in 1954.”

The Governor stated that Johns and her fellow students “changed what was possible for every child who came after them,” and their example still call us forward three-quarters of a century later.