Photographs from the Dorothy Davis Case In April 1951, the students at Robert Russa Moton High School in Prince Edward County, VA, went on strike. Although their protest was intended to persuade their local school board to build them a better school, it actually led to a landmark civil rights case that marked the end of legal segregation in the nation's public schools. This was one of five cases that the Supreme Court heard collectively and consolidated under Brown v. Board of Education . Read m