The U.S. Capitol unveiled a bronze statue of Barbara Rose Johns, following Virginia's removal of a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in 2020.The bronze, sculpted by Steven Weitzman and approved earlier this year by the Architect of the Capitol and the Joint Committee on the Library, was revealed at a ceremony in Emancipation Hall attended by more than 200 family members and leaders including House Speaker Mike Johnson, Hakeem Jeffries, Glenn Youngkin and Abigail Spanberger.The statue shows the 16-year-old Johns holding a tattered book beside a lectern; its pedestal is engraved with Johns's question and a verse from Isaiah, and organizers say it honors the 1951 Moton High School student strike that helped lead to the
Brown v. Board of Education decision.