On the final version of the statue, there’s an inscription from the Bible. Taken from the back half of Isaiah 11:6, it reads “and a little child shall lead them.” That seemed appropriate to the ...

The bronze statue of the teenage civil rights heroine will replace a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that the state removed from the U.S. Capitol in December 2020.

A bronze statue depicting Virginia civil rights heroine Barbara Johns will be added to the U.S. Capitol by the end of this year.