“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 ...
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 ...
Robert "Bob" L. Whitfield, 85, moved from this world into eternity on Tuesday, December 16, 2025. Proud son of Rose E. Strong Whitfield and William H. Whitfield, Sr., he was the eldest of their ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A newly unveiled statue of teenage civil rights heroine Barbara Johns now stands for Virginia in the United States Capitol, along with a statue of George Washington, replacing ...
The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...
Dec. 17 (UPI) --A statue of Barbara Rose Johns, a Black teenage girl who protested segregation, has been unveiled at the U.S. Capitol, four years after Virginia selected the civil rights icon to ...
The U.S. Capitol on Tuesday began displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of ...