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Johnny Cash statue to be unveiled at US Capitol to represent Arkansas

Country musician to be honored in statuary hall collection alongside memorial of civil rights leader Daisy Bates

The US House speaker, Mike Johnson, and the chamber’s minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, were to join the state’s congressional delegation, the governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and members of the late, Grammy-winning singer’s family for the unveiling. Cash will join a statue of the civil rights leader Daisy Bates, a member of the Little Rock Nine who were key figures in integrating public schools that had been racially segregated. The artist Kevin Kresse created the Cash statue, which shows the musician with a guitar slung across his back and a hand in the instrument’s strap across his chest.

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