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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.
Robert Russa Moton was born in Amelia County, Virginia, on August 26, 1867, and was raised in nearby Rice, Prince Edward County, Virginia. He was the grandson of an African chieftain, who had grown wealthy by engaging in slave trading. Later this chief was himself sold into slavery, leading to the establishment of Moton's family in the Americas ...
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.
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.
The all-black R.R. Moton High School, named after Robert Russa Moton, a noted educator from neighboring Amelia County, did not have a gymnasium, cafeteria, or teachers' restrooms. Due to overcrowding, three plywood buildings had been erected, and some students had to take classes in a school bus parked outside.
R. R. Moton High School Typing Classroom, 1951 used as Defendant's Exhibit No. 75. Edwilda Gustava Isaac (née Allen; 1937 – 2022) was an American civil rights pioneer. She participated in the 1951 walkout of the segregated Robert Russa Moton High School to protest unequal conditions.
In December, Paul Moton, a former two-time Administrator of the Year at Tupelo Public Schools District, entered a plea of no contest, or "nolo contendre," to driving under the influence in Tupelo ...
Robert Russa Moton High School, Farmville, VA. Farmville and Prince Edward County Public Schools were the source of Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (1952–54), a case incorporated into Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the landmark case that overturned school segregation in the United States.