Barbara Johns was a junior at Robert Russa Moton High School in 1951 in Farmville, Va. She liked learning, but she didn’t like the school’s overcrowded classrooms, dangerous wood-burning stoves and ...

FARMVILLE, Va. — The Robert Russa Moton Museum, already a National Historic Landmark in Farmville, is now part of the National Park Service. The museum was the Virginia school which was a part of the ...

I was sitting in Cafe Zelia in downtown Farmville, Va., and for the first and only time that day, I wasn't alone. For hours, I'd been following Virginia's Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail, ...