Civil rights leader Daisy Bates and music legend Johnny Cash to replace Arkansas statues at the US Capitol
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Cash and Bates will replace century-old Arkansas statues of James Paul Clarke and Uriah M. Rose in the US Capitol’s National Statuary Hall collection.
The US Capitol will soon officially welcome two new, iconic figures. A statue of Daisy Bates, a civil rights journalist and activist who is perhaps best known for her role as a mentor to the Little Rock Nine – a group of Black students who were the first to desegregate schools and break Arkansas’ color barrier – is replacing one of Uriah M. Rose, an attorney and former president of the Arkansas Bar Association. Another statue – of James Paul Clarke, the state’s 18th governor – is set to be replaced in September by one of country music icon Johnny Cash. The statues of Clarke and Rose have been in the US Capitol for more than a century, with Rose being installed in 1917 and Clarke in 1921. The National Statuary Hall’s collection includes two statues from all 50 states. Bates’ statue was installed in the hall on May 3 and officially unveiled on Wednesday, during a ceremony organized by the office of House Speaker Mike Johnson. The bill to replace Rose and Clarke’s statues was signed in April 2019 by then-Gov. Asa Hutchinson. Soon after, Bates and Cash were chosen as their replacements, CNN reported.
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