A Field Trip to the Moton Museum

900 Griffin Boulevard,Farmville VA 23901

13 August, 2021

Description

A private, guided tour of the Moton Museum followed by an optional happy hour at Catbird Rooftop Bar in Farmville. Join other Virginia teachers as we embark on a two-hour guided tour of the Moton Museum: Farmville Virginia’s former Robert Russa Moton High School, now a National Historic Landmark and museum, is the birthplace of America’s student-led civil rights revolution. Dreamed of by 16-year-old Barbara Johns, the 1951 Moton Student Strike produced three-fourths of the plaintiffs in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the landmark Supreme Court decision desegregating U.S. schools. From 1959 to 1964 Prince Edward County closed its public schools to avoid integration. The Supreme Court in Griffin v. Prince Edward (1964) ordered schools to reopen, declaring “the time for mere ‘deliberate speed’ has run out.” We'll follow up the tour with an optional happy hour at the Catbird Rooftop in Farmville to connect and chat about our experience on the tour and teaching in the upcoming year!