[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 37 (Tuesday, February 25, 2025)]
[House]
[Pages H826-H827]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             HONORING CIVIL RIGHTS ICON BARBARA ROSE JOHNS

  (Mr. SUBRAMANYAM asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SUBRAMANYAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today as we honor February as 
Black History Month.
  I think of the students at Waterford's Second Street School in my 
district, a one-room schoolhouse established 2 years after the end of 
the Civil War where kids studied under segregation.
  I think of Barbara Rose Johns, a civil rights icon from Virginia. 
Barbara's high school was dilapidated and overcrowded. At just 16, she 
led her classmates in a walkout, inspiring the Virginia NAACP to sue 
for integration. The walkout sparked one of five cases reviewed by the 
Supreme Court in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to say that Barbara Johns will soon have a 
statue just steps from this Chamber, alongside George Washington, 
representing the Commonwealth of Virginia.
  As a country, we have come a long way since Barbara Rose Johns' high 
school was integrated, but we can't let our country slide back.

  We will continue to fight and honor the work and legacies of Barbara 
Johns and all who fought for a more perfect Union.

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