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

A dispute erupted over a statue honoring Barbara Rose Johns, who protested segregation. Her statue replaced Confederate Gen.

Teen civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns is known for leading a student walkout at her high school during the ’50s. The walkout was meant to be a protest against the racial segregation at public ...

The US Capitol unveiled a statue for Barbara Rose Johns, a notable civil rights activist who led movements in the 1950s as a ...

After five years of speculation, Congress finally revealed which Virginian would replace Confederate General Robert E. Lee in ...

A statue of Barbara Rose Johns, who led a protest against segregation at her Virginia school in 1951, is unveiled in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Five years after a statue of a Confederate general was removed from the Capitol, a statue of one lesser known civil rights ...

Unveiling of Barbara Rose Johns statue in U.S. Capitol honors her role in civil rights movement and highlights power of youth ...

Democrats have unveiled the statue that has taken the place of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s, which was removed several years ago. Senator Tim Kaine, D-Virginia, triumphantly […] ...

At 16 years old, Johns led a student walkout in her hometown of Farmville, Virginia, protesting unequal education opportunities for Black students.

On Tuesday, a bronze-cast statue of Barbara Rose Johns — standing next to a lectern, holding a book high above her head — ...

A statue of Barbara Johns now stands alongside George Washington representing Virginia the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall.