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Confederate general Robert E Lee statue removed from US capitol James Crump © Provided by The Independent The statue of Lee, a commander of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, was removed from the US Capitol s National Statuary Hall Collection, which can hold up to two statues from each state at a time. The monument to the Confederate general, which stood in the collection for 111 years, will be replaced by a statue of civil rights icon Barbara Johns, after the state commission decided on it last week, according to In 1951, at the age of 16, Johns led a walkout at Robert Russa Moton High School in Virginia for equal education. The strike, which took place at the school just for Black children, led to a court case that helped pave the way for the end of segregation in US schools.

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