Politics & Government Listen to the Young People Sometimes Students Know Best ReplyBarbara Johns as a sixteen-year-old student led what may have been the most important step in the civil rights movement in Virginia. The facilities provided to Black and white children for their education were unequal as were the programs for them. White Virginia political leaders fought the decision in many ways with “Massive Resistance” for nearly two decades before the schools in Virginia were finally desegregated. As a young person she could see the ways segregation unfairly disadvantaged Black children, and she stood up to bring attention to the issue and ultimately the beginning of a solution to it. The proposed guidelines are being characterized as cruel and inhumane for transgender students.

Source: Washington Post October 05, 2022 23:13 UTC