US EditionUS Capitol Unveils Statue for Civil Rights Icon Barbara Rose Johns, Replacing Robert E. Lee
The statue honors Johns’ leadership in protesting poor segregated school conditions and replaces a Confederate general’s monument, symbolizing civil rights progress.
- On Tuesday, the U.S. Capitol began displaying a statue of Barbara Rose Johns at a dedication ceremony in Washington, D.C.
- Johns as a teenager protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, inspiring the decision to honor her with teenage protest imagery in the Capitol.
- Replacing a Confederate monument, the new Johns statue serves as a pointed replacement for the removed Lee statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from several years ago.
- People took photos of the statue at the dedication ceremony Tuesday at the Capitol in Washington, drawing onlookers and media attention at the Capitol site.
- AP coverage noted that the Capitol began displaying the Johns statue on Tuesday as a pointed replacement for Lee, crediting Mark Schiefelbein, Associated Press reporter, and Jonathan Mattise, Associated Press reporter.
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The Virginian Pilot
Daily PressEditorial: Addition of Barbara Johns statue to Capitol represents Virginia well
Barbara Johns, who led a courageous and history-changing walkout of students at her racially segregated high school in Farmville nearly 75 years ago, contributed far more to the commonwealth of Virginia and the nation than Robert E. Lee ever did. It is fitting that her likeness has taken the place of a statue in the U.S. Capitol that long honored the Confederate general in an insidious effort to whitewash his legacy and his cause. More than 200 …
Mason City Globe Gazette
Herald & ReviewCapitol unveils statue of civil rights icon
The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began to display a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that…
Statue of Little-Known Civil Rights Activist Replaces Robert E. Lee in U.S. Capitol
When it comes to well-known civil rights activists, there are some obvious heavy hitters. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, John Lewis, and Malcolm X are generally going to be […] The post Statue of Little-Known Civil Rights Activist Replaces Robert E. Lee in U.S. Capitol appeared first on The Western Journal.
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