Moton School: Events: Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the student strike - April 23, 2001

Photographs Taken By The Photography Students of Dr. Kathy Orth At Prince Edward County High School

Part of the crowd of nearly 1,000 listens to the program at the Moton High School/Museum; Mrs. Grace Moton of the Moton Museum's board of directors and others listen to the program (Photo by Michael Coles)

Ms. Vera Allen, president of the Martha E. Forrester Council of Women, listens to the program. Martha E. Forrester Council began the effort to save the Moton School and turn it into a Center for the Study of Civil Rights in Education; Gen. Samuel V. Wilson, president of the Moton Museum's board of directors, addresses the crowd in front of the museum; (Left to right) Gen. Wilson, Mrs. Allen, 1951 student leader John Stokes, and Thomas Mayfield, president emeritus of the Moton Museum board, cut the ribbon formally opening the Robert R. Moton Museum (Photo by Michael Coles)

Cutting the ribbon (Photo by Erik Kieweit De Jonge); A moment of exhilaration now that the Museum is actually open (Photo by Erik Kieweit De Jonge); Joan John Cobbs (left), sister of the late Barbara Johns, leads part of the mass of people walking from the Moton School/Museum to the Prince Edward County Court House in downtown Farmville, where student leaders went in 1951 to appeal to the superintendent of schools for a new Moton High School (Photo by Tatum Clements)

Part of the crowd gathered for the final ceremony on the steps of the Court House (photo by Chad Corbett); John Watson, one of the leaders of the 1951 student strike, addresses the throng at the Court House. Behind him are the Albany (Georgia) Civil Rights Movement Museum Freedom Singers (photo by Tatum Clements)

Part of the crowd listening to closing remarks at the Court House (Photo by Erik Kieweit De Jonge); With the Albany Freedom Singers, members of the crowd join hands and sing "We Shall Overcome" (Photo by Erik Kieweit De Jonge)