 Moton High School in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia.After securing NAACP legal support, the Moton students filed "Davis v. Prince Edward County", the largest and only student initiated case consolidated into "Brown v. Board of Education", the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring "separate but equal" public schools unconstitutional.Barbara Rose Johns Powell was born in New York City, New York in 1935.