A state commission voted Wednesday to replace Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in a U.S. Capitol display with civil-rights icon Barbara Rose Johns ... along with John Mercer Langston, a 19th ...

The Commission for Historical Statues is set to approve a bronze statue of 20th-century civil rights leader Barbara Rose ...

(WAVY) — Virginia Gov ... votes to remove Lee statue from US Capitol; process for replacement starts On April 23, 1951, 16-year-old Barbara Rose Johns led a student walkout at Robert Russa ...

RICHMOND — A statue of a Black teenage girl who dared challenge segregation in Virginia schools could soon stand beside George Washington in the U.S. Capitol. Barbara Rose Johns, who as a 16 ...

Lee, which represented Virginia ... to bring Barbara Rose Johns to life in bronze was announced Wednesday by the state’s Commission for Historical Statues in the United States Capitol.

Mark Warner was Virginia’s governor when the state established a commission to create the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial in Capitol Square ... Post Office after John Mercer Langston.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Wednesday that Barbara Rose Johns, a civil rights pioneer ... in downtown Richmond and in the Virginia state capitol are also being removed.

RICHMOND, Va. -- Sixty-seven years after she helped lead a walkout to protest inequality in segregated Virginia schools, the Commonwealth is celebrating the first-ever Barbara Johns Day.

Lee from the US Capitol building in Washington, DC. Erected in 1909, the sculpture was one of two representing Virginia in the building’s National Statuary Hall, where every state gets two statues.

(WRIC) — The Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR) will soon reveal the chosen sculptor for a new statue in the United States Capitol ... sculptor for a Barbara Rose Johns statue ...

"It looks like the state of Virginia is setting the example for other states in the South," said John Watson ... a daughter of Barbara Johns, called the memorial "breathtaking." ...

Efforts to install a statue of Civil Rights icon Barbara Johns ... At the U.S. Capitol, each state is allowed two statues in Statuary Hall. One of Virginia's statues is of George Washington ...