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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.
Robert Russa Moton (August 26, 1867 – May 31, 1940) was an American educator and author. [1] He served as an administrator at Hampton Institute . In 1915 he was named principal of Tuskegee Institute , after the death of founder Booker T. Washington , a position he held for 20 years until retirement in 1935.
Robert Russa Moton High School was a segregated public high school in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia. It was constructed in 1939 at the instigation of the Council of Colored Women, led by Martha E. Forrester. [8] [6] In 1951 a group of students, led by 16-year-old Barbara Rose Johns, staged a walkout in protest of the conditions. The ...
The Robert Russa Moton Boyhood Home, also known as Pleasant Shade, is a historic plantation near Rice in rural Prince Edward County, Virginia. The 246-acre (100 ha) plantation was the childhood home of African-American educator Robert Russa Moton between 1869 and 1880. The kitchen housing area where Moton lived is also believed to incorporate ...
Barbara Rose Johns Powell (March 6, 1935 – September 28, 1991) [1] was a leader in the American civil rights movement. [2] On April 23, 1951, at the age of 16, Powell led a student strike for equal education opportunities at R.R. Moton High School in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia.
The person who police say killed her, 20-year-old Josiah Moton, was also found dead by suicide, authorities said. As police searched the apartment, they found a 1-year-old and 2-year-old locked in ...
New evidence reopened the case of actress Natalie Wood’s 1981 drowning death, pointing to her husband, actor Robert Wagner, as a prime suspect. Two witnesses came forward, claiming Wood was ...
LeVelle Moton (born 1974), American college basketball coach Robert Russa Moton (1867–1940), African American educator and author Taylor Moton (born 1994), American football player