In a Capitol Building that still has statues in honor of Jefferson Davis, Barbara Rose Johns will be on the first floor of ...
Starting Tuesday, the U.S. Capitol will display a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at ...
For 111 years, Virginia’s representation in the U.S. Capitol was a bronze Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general who fought to ...
After five years of speculation, Congress finally revealed which Virginian would replace Confederate General Robert E. Lee in ...
Barbara Rose Johns led a high school walkout that contributed to Brown v. Board of Education. She later graduated from Drexel ...
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 U.S. Capitol has begun displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her ...
The U.S. Capitol has unveiled a statue of teenage civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns, who is known for protesting poor ...