Barbara Rose Johns was 16 when she led a walkout at her high school, credited with helping end school segregation. Her statue replaces Robert E. Lee’s, which was removed in 2020.
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Confederate statue toppled during Black Lives Matter protests will be reinstalled
The statue of Albert Pike, a Confederate general and Freemason leader, was vandalized and taken down on Juneteenth in 2020. It is the only statue of a Confederate general in Washington, D.C.
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Appreciating our enslaved ancestors despite the relics of the Confederacy
Code Switch co-host B.A. Parker on what to do with the debris of Southern sins as we celebrate Juneteenth.
