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UNVEILING: Second Baptist Church of Little Rock hosted a simulcast event for the unveiling of the Daisy Bates statue in the nation's capitol. Credit: Brian Chilson Whether it’s the Parthenon or ...
The statue of Daisy Bates was unveiled on Wednesday and the one of Johnny Cash will be installed later on in the year. A sculptor from Idaho named Benjamin Victor was chosen to create the statue ...
The US Capitol will soon officially welcome two new, iconic figures. A statue of Daisy Bates, a civil rights journalist and activist who is perhaps best known for her role as a mentor to the ...
A statue of civil rights activist Daisy Gatson Bates will be unveiled at the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol on May 8. The U.S. Capitol building will soon be home to a new statue of ...
is on in the second segment to talk about the Daisy Bates Statue. Support for Arkansas Week provided by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The Arkansas Times and Little Rock Public Radio. And hello ...
Second Baptist Church in Little Rock invites public to watch Daisy Bates statue unveiling Daisy Bates’s home and Little Rock Central High School are now National Historic Landmarks. The school ...
The statue, along with a new statue of civil rights leader Daisy Gatson Bates, is set to replace Arkansas’s two former statues in the U.S. Capitol. Earlier this year in May, Bates' statue ...
A ‘SIZE-5 GIANT’: A statue of civil rights champion and journalist Daisy Bates was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol in May. (Credit: Architect of the Capitol) She surely would have been pleased as ...
24. Civil rights leader Daisy Bates and singer Johnny Cash to replace Arkansas statues at the US Capitol Cash’s statue will be joining a statue of civil rights leader Daisy Bates as the faces ...
Johnny Cash is one of two Arkansas natives—along with civil rights leader Daisy Bates, whose statue debuted in May—recently chosen to represent the state in Washington, D.C. As congressional ...