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The Robert Russa Moton Museum (popularly known as the Moton Museum or Moton) is a historic site and museum in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia.It is located in the former Robert Russa Moton High School, considered "the student birthplace of America's Civil Rights Movement" for its initial student strike and ultimate role in the 1954 Brown v.
The former R.R. Moton High School building in Farmville has been recognized as a nationally significant community landmark. In 1998, it was designated a National Historic Landmark. It now houses the Robert Russa Moton Museum, a center for the study of civil rights in education.
Moton Field, part of the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site; Moton Field Municipal Airport, Airport located north of Tuskegee, Alabama; Robert Russa Moton Museum (Moton High School), National Historic Landmark in Prince Edward County, Virginia
Holly Knoll, also known as the Robert R. Moton House, is a historic house in rural Gloucester County, Virginia, near Capahosic.It was the retirement home of the influential African-American educator Robert Russa Moton (1867-1940), and is the only known home of his to survive.
Dr. R. Moton High School was a segregated high school for black students in Brooksville, Florida, United States. The Herndando County school was integrated after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , and the local school board was eventually pressed to eliminate segregation in the school system.
Moton High School is the site of a 1951 student-led strike over conditions at the segregated school. The resulting lawsuit became part of and provided the most plaintiffs for Brown v. Board of Education. The school, now an award-winning museum affiliated with Longwood University, is the student birthplace of the American Civil Rights Movement.
Guest pickers are a poor .500 so far. Can the N.C. Central basketball coach outsmart the N&O staff? “Feels like an undefeated week,” LeVelle Moton said. “I’’m like Jimmy the Greek.
The Virginia Civil Rights Memorial is a monument in Richmond, Virginia, commemorating protests which helped bring about school desegregation in the state. [1] The memorial was opened in July 2008, and is located on the grounds of the Virginia State Capitol.