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FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2010, file photo, Joan Cobbs, left, sister of civil rights legend Barbara Johns, shakes hands with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, right, after a portrait of Barbara Johns, center, was unveiled in the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Va. There will soon be a statue saluting Virginia’s Barbara Johns, a 16-year-old Black girl who staged a strike in 1951 over unequal conditions at her segregated high school in Farmville. Her actions led to court-ordered integration of public schools across the U.S, via the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

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