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Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... I was in Richmond, Virginia in 2020 when thousands of protesters desecrated the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee and later ...

“The Commonwealth of Virginia will now be properly represented by an actual patriot who embodied the principle of liberty and justice for all, and not a traitor who took up arms against the United ...

CHARLESTON — In 2020, Marion Square said goodbye to one famous Southern leader and enslaver, John C. Calhoun. On Dec. 11, the downtown park welcomed another, Gen. Robert E. Lee. Five years after ...

A Black woman who led a walkout to protest conditions at her segregated high school in Virginia is now immortalized in the U.S. Capitol. Her statue rests in the same space that one of Confederate Gen.

Teen civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns is known for leading a student walkout at her high school during the '50s. The walkout was meant to be a protest against the racial segregation at public ...

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying 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 ...

Dec. 17 (UPI) --A statue of Barbara Rose Johns, a Black teenage girl who protested segregation, has been unveiled at the U.S. Capitol, four years after Virginia selected the civil rights icon to ...

More than seven decades after she stood up inside a segregated Virginia high school, civil rights pioneer Barbara Rose Johns now stands in the U.S. Capitol—immortalized in bronze and representing the ...

After five years of speculation, Congress finally revealed which Virginian would replace Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the U.S. Capitol — a 16-year-old civil rights activist named Barbara Rose ...

The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying 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 ...

Five years after a statue of a Confederate general was removed from the Capitol, a statue of one lesser known civil rights leader is finally being unveiled. Barbara Rose Johns was only 16 years old ...