Voices of Freedom
Visit VCU Libraries' Voices of Freedom where you can access video oral histories of twelve leaders of the Civil Rights movement in Virginia. Transcripts of the complete interviews are also available from this site. Throughout Black History Month, we will spotlight different individuals who participated in the Voices of Freedom project.
Today, watch (or read) the oral history of John A. Stokes, educator and retired principal of Baltimore City Public Schools. Stokes was one of the leaders of the student strike at the R.R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia in April, 1951. The strike led to the federal court case, Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, which was heard by the Supreme Court of the United States as part of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case.
-- Ray Bonis, Special Collections and Archives.