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Joan Johns Cobbs, right, listens as Gov. Terry McAuliffe delivers remarks during a dedication ceremony for the Barbara Johns Building, named for her sister, pictured in the portrait, left, in the building’s lobby at 202 N. 9th St.


Joan Johns Cobbs, right, listens as Gov. Terry McAuliffe delivers remarks during a dedication ceremony for the Barbara Johns Building, named for her sister, pictured in the portrait, left, in the building’s lobby at 202 N. 9th St.

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Nearly 66 years after Barbara Johns, a 16-year-old student at Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville, led hundreds of her classmates on a walkout to protest substandard conditions in her segregated school that were separate but not equal, her sister tearfully thanked Gov. Terry McAuliffe for naming a newly renovated state building in Downtown in Ms. Johns’ honor.