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.

RICHMOND, Va. -- The commission leading efforts to place a statue of Civil Rights icon Barbara Rose Johns as one of two representing Virginia at the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall announced the ...

The statue of civil rights leader Barbara Rose Johns has been approved by the Commission for Historical Statues in the U.S. Capitol, which is expected to be unveiled as part of the National ...

A state commission voted Wednesday to replace Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in a U.S. Capitol display with civil-rights icon Barbara Rose Johns, who as a teen led a walkout at her all-Black high ...

Virginia's special history commission on Wednesday picked Barbara Rose Johns, ... Washington to replace the state's current statue of Robert E. Lee in the hallowed halls of the U.S. Capitol. ...

In 2010, Virginia artist Louis Briel completed a portrait of Johns, which hung for several months in the State Capitol before being permanently installed in the Robert Russa Moten Museum in Farmville.

A model of the statue of Barbara Johns, the Black teen who challenged school segregation in Virginia, that will replace Robert E. Lee in the U.S. Capitol.

A state panel has selected a sculptor to create a statue of teenage civil rights heroine Barbara Rose Johns to replace the Robert E. Lee statue that Virginia removed from the U.S. Capitol 19 ...

In 2020, the Virginia General Assembly voted to replace Lee and the commission picked Johns as his replacement. Lee's statue was removed from the Capitol a few days later and is in the possession ...

The Virginia Department of Historic Resources will soon reveal the chosen sculptor for a new statue in the United States Capitol building in Washington D.C. Skip to content WRIC ABC 8News ...

The Johns statue will replace a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that the state removed from the U.S. Capitol in December 2020. Each state gets two statues in the collection. Virginia’s ...

The statue of civil rights leader Barbara Rose Johns has been approved by the Commission for Historical Statues in the U.S. Capitol, which is expected to be unveiled as part of the National ...