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The Commission for Historical Statues has approved a full-scale clay model of Barbara Johns, a civil rights activist at a segregated high school in Prince Edward County. Pending approval by the state, the statue will later be cast in bronze and be moved into the U.S. Capitol.
It was a year of political twists, public tragedies and overcoming challenges.
Denver public statues of Kit Carson and Christopher Columbus, which were toppled during George Floyd protests in 2020, need replacements. City will use a $2.3 million grant to figure out what to do next.
One side of the Virginia statue's base features a quote from the Book of Isaiah: "and a little child shall lead them." Another side of the base quotes the teenage civil rights heroine's challenge to her fellow students: "Are we just going to accept these conditions, or are we going to do something about it?"
Virginia's statue of teenage civil rights heroine Barbara Johns is a step closer to the Statuary Hall Collection after a congressional panel approved sculptor Steven Weitzman's preliminary model.