Barbara Johns

Target entity: Barbara Johns
Context triple: [Robert Russa Moton High School, studentLeader, Barbara Johns]

• A. Oliver Brown
  Oliver Brown was the lead plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that ended legal racial segregation in public schools.
• B. Claudette Colvin
  Claudette Colvin is an American civil rights pioneer who, as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger months before Rosa Parks and later served as a key plaintiff in the landmark case that ended bus segregation.
• C. Elizabeth Eckford
  Elizabeth Eckford is one of the Little Rock Nine, the African American students who bravely integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, becoming a symbol of the civil rights movement.
• D. Ruby Bridges
  Ruby Bridges is a civil rights icon who, as a six-year-old in 1960, became the first Black child to integrate an all-white elementary school in the American South.
• E. Mary Beth Tinker
  Mary Beth Tinker is an American free-speech activist best known for her role as a student plaintiff in the landmark 1969 U.S. Supreme Court case that established students’ First Amendment rights in public schools.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Barbara Johns
Target entity description: Barbara Johns was a pioneering African American civil rights activist who, as a teenager, led a 1951 student strike against segregation in Farmville, Virginia, helping spark the legal challenges that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education.

• A. Oliver Brown
  Oliver Brown was the lead plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that ended legal racial segregation in public schools.
• B. Claudette Colvin
  Claudette Colvin is an American civil rights pioneer who, as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger months before Rosa Parks and later served as a key plaintiff in the landmark case that ended bus segregation.
• C. Elizabeth Eckford
  Elizabeth Eckford is one of the Little Rock Nine, the African American students who bravely integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, becoming a symbol of the civil rights movement.
• D. Ruby Bridges
  Ruby Bridges is a civil rights icon who, as a six-year-old in 1960, became the first Black child to integrate an all-white elementary school in the American South.
• E. Mary Beth Tinker
  Mary Beth Tinker is an American free-speech activist best known for her role as a student plaintiff in the landmark 1969 U.S. Supreme Court case that established students’ First Amendment rights in public schools.
• F. None of above. chosen