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Sometime after visitors and tourists are welcomed back to the U.S. Capitol, there will be a statue saluting Virginia’s Barbara Johns, a 16-year-old Black girl who staged a strike in 1951 over unequal conditions at her segregated high school in Farmville. Her actions led to court-ordered integration of public schools across the U.S, via the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education. Each state legislature can choose up to two representatives to honor in the Capitol’s collection. In December, a state commission recommended replacing Lee’s statue with a statue of Johns. ...

“These racist symbols only serve to uphold revisionist history and the belief that white supremacy remains morally acceptable,” SPLC chief of staff Lecia Brooks said in a statement. “This is why we believe that all symbols of white supremacy should be removed from public spaces.”

160 Confederate symbols taken down in 2020, according to Southern Poverty Law Center Share Updated: 8:44 AM EST Feb 23, 2021 By AARON MORRISON Associated Press 160 Confederate symbols taken down in 2020, according to Southern Poverty Law Center Share Updated: 8:44 AM EST Feb 23, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript I'm glad is removed because you know it is so long and we know that. You mean he didn't represent blanks? You know, it just represents the whole town. A long time ago. Shouldn't be treated that way. They treat us like melon. They came out, you kno...

Southern Poverty Law Center to release latest figures in project tracking movement to take down the monuments

NEW YORK - When rioters tore through the U.S. Capitol last month, some of them gripping Confederate battle flags, they didn’t encounter a statue of the ...