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Congressional leaders on Tuesday unveiled a new statue of civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns, replacing the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in the U.S. Capitol. “Today, we are here to honor one of America’s true trailblazers — a woman who embodied the essence of the American spirit in her fight for liberty and justice and equal treatment under the law, the indomitable Barbara Rose Johns,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said. In 1951, Ms. Johns was just 16 years old when she organized a s