This part of the movie has been the most difficult for me to watch
Barbara Rose Johns Powell (March 6, 1935 – September 25, 1991) was a pioneering leader in the American civil rights movement and the niece of one of the "fathers of the Civil Rights Movement", Vernon Johns.[1] On April 23, 1951, at the age of 16, Powell led a student strike for equal education at R.R. Moton High School in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia. After securing NAACP legal support, the Moton students filed Davis v. Prince Edward County, the only student-initiated case consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring "separate but equal" public schools unconstitutional.