The Charleston County School District had requested Lee’s marker be removed in 2021, which spurred a legal battle with the ...

The U.S. Capitol will soon display a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her ...

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, ...

Capitol unveils statue replacing Robert E Lee - Johns is known for protesting poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high ...

Through the years along the George Washington Memorial Parkway and Mount Vernon Bike Trail, Superintendent Charles Cuvelier has been there as the National Park Service representative, taking it all in ...

From 1861 to 1865, the United States was ripped in two by war – with the Union in the North and the seceded states, the Confederacy, in the South. These four years witnessed unprecedented bloodshed, ...

Around 730 veteran wreaths were placed in Huse Memorial Park to honor all the local brave heroes who made sacrifices for freedom ...

For more than a century, this Black soldier from Virginia was remembered by nearly no one. Then this year, someone at the Pentagon found a use for him. For more than a century, this Black soldier from ...

A statue honoring Civil Rights activist Barbara Rose Johns will be unveiled on Capitol Hill to represent Virginia.

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