Sixteen-year-old Barbara Johns was in the belly of Jim Crow segregation, swallowed by white supremacy. “God, please help us,” she prayed in her bedroom in Prince Edward County, Virginia. “We are your children too.” Johns was distraught over the conditions she and her classmates faced at Robe….

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This post appeared here first: Forward Day By Day – January 5, 2018

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