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The statues of civil-rights pioneer Daisy Bates and musician Johnny Cash destined for Statuary Hall inside the nation's Capitol were not completed by the end of 2022, but officials are hopeful they will be ready soon.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. highlights the brave role of a federal judge in Little Rock in 1957, and draws some parallels to today.
Janis Kearney spoke about her experiences with Bates as statues of Bates and singer Johnny Cash are to be unveiled in the coming year.
William Harold Flowers was a civil rights titan, winning many landmark victories, which include ending the practice of excluding Black Americans from juries in Arkansas, desegregating the first Southern university in the country (University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville), and paving the way for school desegregation cases in Arkansas after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
As a project nears completion to place statues of the civil rights leader and the singer in the U.S. Capitol, a class will examine their lives.