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 ...

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.

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 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. Maryland sculptor Steven Weitzman will ...

Sixty-seven years after she helped lead a walkout to protest inequality in segregated Virginia schools, the Commonwealth is celebrating Barbara Johns Day.

RICHMOND — A statue of a Black teenage girl who dared challenge segregation in Virginia schools could soon stand beside George Washington in the U.S. Capitol. Barbara Rose Johns, who as a 16 ...

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.

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 ...

Efforts to install a statue of Civil Rights icon, Barbara Johns, in the U.S. Capitol moved one step closer on Thursday.

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

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 Statuar… ...