Virginia History Podcast
Virginia History Podcast
Robert Van Ness
Cainan Townsend Interview
33 minutes Posted Feb 28, 2018 at 11:57 am.
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In which I interview Robert Russa Moton Museum Education Director Cainan Townsend for American Evolution: Virginia to America 1619-2019. Cainan discusses how a group of African-American high school students led a 1951 protest which had a major influence on Brown vs. Board of Education and the Civil Rights movement that soon followed.