Johnson: How 16-year-old niece of fiery Alabama preacher helped end school segregation

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Rev. Verno Johns, who preceded Rev. Martin Luther King as pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, and his niece, Barbara Johns, who organized a strike at a Virginia high school that helped end school segregation

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