Congressman Hakeem Jeffries on Instagram: "Today, a statue was unveiled in the United States Capitol to honor Barbara Rose Johns, an incredible trailblazer who led the charge for school desegregation at just 16 years old in Farmville, Virginia 🏫✊🏾📚 The Commonwealth will now be represented on Capitol Hill by a patriot who fought for equality, not a traitor to the Union who fought to preserve chattel slavery 🛑 On April 23, 1951, at 16, she led hundreds of her classmates on a two-week school wa

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