County officials refused to renew the principal’s contract. Blacklisted throughout the state, Principal Jones and his new wife, Inez Davenport Jones, the teacher who had secretly advised Barbara Johns, moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where they found new jobs and joined Reverend Vernon Johns’s congregation. Parents who signed on to the lawsuit and whose names were published in the Farmville Herald incurred economic retaliation. Even self-employed farmers, thought safe, could no longer find local buyers for their crops or secure bank loans to get them through to harvest time.
