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Barbara Rose Johns statue to go up on Capitol Hill in place of former Robert E Lee statue
A statue honoring Civil Rights activist Barbara Rose Johns will be unveiled Tuesday on Capitol Hill, taking the spot upon which a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once stood. The statue will ...
The symbolism was hard to miss: In the halls of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, the statue of a Black teenager who fought against segregation replaced a Confederate general who fought to preserve slavery ...
In 1951, a Black teenager led a walkout of her segregated Virginia high school. On Tuesday, her statue replaced that of a Confederate general in the U.S. Capitol. Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she ...
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