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WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 16: (SPEECH) Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) speaks "Today, many of us are following Barbara's footsteps as we work to ensure that America is living up to the promise of Brown v Board of Education. Fighting against segregation. Fighting for diversity. As we ensure that every child has equitable access to a high quality education. But as we all know, our nation has a complicated history. And Virginia did not immediately accept the ruling, and Brown instead noticed the language. And Brown quote, where the state has undertaken to provide it and actually close the schools in Prince Edward County to reward education integration by what they called massive resistance. We have some students here today that were denied that education." during the unveiling of a statue of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns in Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol on December 16, 2025 in Washington, DC. In 1951, 16-year-old Johns led a walkout at her segregated Virginia high school to protest poor conditions for Black students. Johns will represent the state of Virginia as a replacement for a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee which was removed in 2020. (Footage by Alex Wong/Getty Images)