Barbara Johns, who, as a teenager, helped organize a strike to desegregate schools in Prince Edward County. (Library of Virginia) On Tuesday, the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol got its ...

A statue of Barbara Johns, who at the age of 16 led a walkout at her Prince Edward County high school that was the foundation of the U.S. Supreme Court case that led, “with all deliberate speed,” to ...

A statue honoring Civil Rights activist Barbara Rose Johns will be unveiled Tuesday on Capitol Hill, taking the spot upon which a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once stood. The statue will ...

“The Commonwealth of Virginia will now be properly represented by an actual patriot who embodied the principle of liberty and justice for all, and not a traitor who took up arms against the United ...

For 111 years, Virginia’s representation in the U.S. Capitol was a bronze Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general who fought to preserve slavery, Webb writes. Now, in that same rotunda, there is Barbara ...

The plan was daring, even risky: Convince the entire all-black student body to walk out of school and not return until the government gave them a bigger, better building — one like the white students ...

In 1951, a Black teenager led a walkout of her segregated Virginia high school. On Tuesday, her statue replaced that of a Confederate general in the U.S. Capitol. Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she ...

Barbara Johns, who led a courageous and history-changing walkout of students at her racially segregated high school in Farmville nearly 75 years ago, contributed far more to the commonwealth of ...