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Congressional leaders on Tuesday unveiled a new statue of civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns, replacing the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in the U.S. Capitol. “Today, we are here to honor one of America’s true trailblazers — a woman who embodied the essence of the American spirit in her fight for liberty and justice and equal treatment under the law, the indomitable Barbara Rose Johns,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said. In 1951, Ms. Johns was just 16 years old when she organized a s

A statue of teen civil rights hero Barbara Rose Johns was unveiled Tuesday in the U.S. Capitol, replacing Virginia’s statue of Robert E. Lee that stood for 111 years. The statue shows the young Johns standing to the side of a lectern, holding a tattered book over her head. Its pedestal is engraved with the words, “Are we going to just accept these conditions, or are we going to do something about it?” It also features a quote from the Book of Isaiah, “And a little child shall lead them.” Republi