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, who as a teen led a walkout at her all-Black high ...

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 ...

Commission selects civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns to represent Virginia in place of Gen. Robert E. Lee in U.S. Capitol Posted: Dec 16, 2020 / 07:43 PM EST Updated: Dec 16, 2020 / 10:50 PM EST ...

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 ...

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 Virginia state commission has voted overwhelmingly to recommend the state’s statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the U.S. Capitol’s Crypt be replaced with another honoring civil r… ...

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 ...