The U.S. Capitol has begun displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her ...
Johns was 16 years old in 1951 when she led a student strike for equal education at R.R. Moton High School in Farmville, ...
The unveiling ceremony of the statue representing Virginia in the Capitol will take place in Emancipation Hall, featuring ...
A statue honoring Civil Rights activist Barbara Rose Johns will be unveiled Tuesday on Capitol Hill, taking the spot upon ...
The U.S. Capitol unveils statue of civil rights pioneer Barbara Rose Johns, who protested her Virginia high school’s poor ...
In the halls of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, the statue of a Black teenager who fought against segregation replaced a ...