A statue of civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune has officially replaced a statue of a Confederate general in the US Capitol’s Statuary Hall. Bethune has made history as the first Black ...

D.C. A statue of Amelia Earhart — the pioneering aviator who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in — was unveiled at the National Statuary Hall inside the U.S ...

The Commission for Historical Statues is set to approve a bronze statue of 20th-century civil rights leader Barbara Rose ...

The post Johnny Cash Lyrics and Never-Before-Seen Diary Pages To Be Published in New Book appeared first on Consequence.

By April Rubin Mary McLeod Bethune on Wednesday became the first Black American to be represented with a state statue in National Statuary Hall, a central room of the United States Capitol ...

WASHINGTON — Civil rights leader and trailblazing educator Mary McLeod Bethune on Wednesday became the first Black person elevated by a state for recognition in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary ...

According to the Architect of the Capitol, the Statuary Hall collection “was authorized by the United States Congress in 1864 to allow each state to provide two statues of notable citizens for ...

A statue of Daisy Gatson Bates was unveiled in the National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol on May 8. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Sen. Tom Cotton were among those who spoke at the event.

“They’re Illinois’s statues in Statuary Hall. Every state gets two statues in the U.S. Capitol. We’ve got Frances Willard and James Shields.” National Statuary Hall is a collection of ...

making the "Man in Black" the first musician to have his likeness represented in Statuary Hall. At an unveiling ceremony in at the United States Capitol Visitor Center, House Speaker Mike Johnson ...

A statue honoring the aviation pioneer is now part of the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall. Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across... An Amelia Earhart statue joins the U.S. Capitol's ...