Sculptor chosen for U.S. Capitol statue of teen who fought school segregation

, one of the five cases considered by the U.S. Supreme Court in its landmark 1954Advertisementto replace Lee as one of two historical figures representing Virginia in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall. to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, where it is now on display as part of the museum’s Lost Cause exhibit.

The panel quickly settled on two as the most qualified: Weitzman, who works out of Weitzman Studios in Brentwood, Md., and Zenos Frudakis, a Pennsylvania artist best known for his Initially, Barry’s former wife, Cora Masters Barry, expressed skepticism that Weitzman, a White man, was chosen to sculpt the former mayor. Yet he soon won her over by including her meaningfully in the creative process and accurately capturing Marion Barry’s essence, she told a Washington Post reporter at the time.

I am a great-great nephew of Mary Tabb Bolling, Robert E. Lee's daughter-in-law. She married his son Maj. Gen. William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, a prisoner of War and Congressman. I am also a descendant of 6 CSA Vets. Barbara Johns story should be told.

Lee was a national treasure. Nobody even knows who this lady is. Ridiculous

No teen fought anything.. a teen was used for activist to violate the Constitution

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She wasn't even from Virginia. She is a big nobody.

Good. Confederacy was an anti-American institution and should not be celebrated

I don't see any reason to hide or erase history, why not add a special section to the place if you want to add a person?

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