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- Self - Host: Capitol Square in Richmond, Virginia tells a story through monuments. Statues of slaveholders and segregationists have long marked this landscape. A more recent arrival writes a new chapter of the story: figures of young people, African-American teenagers, reach for the moon. They show us how far we've come. They remind us how far we have to go.
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- Self - Host: The African-American students of Prince Edward County showed the nation in the 1950s and 60s what they still show us today: what's possible when people of courage and conscience act for justice. Barbara Johns took the stage in 1951 before Rosa Parks refused to get off a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, before Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. So much of what we think of the Civil Rights Movement - protests in Birmingham and Selma, Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, took place after the student strike in Prince Edward County. Barbara told her classmates, "Sometimes a little child shall lead." Young people pointed the way to justice then and they will again, and again.