Speaker Johnson Honors Daisy Bates of Arkansas in Statue Dedication
May 10, 2024
May 10, 2024
WASHINGTON, May 10 (Rep.) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release on May 9, 2024:
Yesterday, Speaker Johnson, joined by Congressional leadership, the Arkansas delegation, and Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, hosted an unveiling ceremony for a new statue in the National Statuary Hall Collection.
The statue, depicting Mrs. Daisy Lee Gatson Bates, will be displayed in Statuary Hall for decades to come. Mrs. Bates was a civil rights act . . .
Yesterday, Speaker Johnson, joined by Congressional leadership, the Arkansas delegation, and Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, hosted an unveiling ceremony for a new statue in the National Statuary Hall Collection.
The statue, depicting Mrs. Daisy Lee Gatson Bates, will be displayed in Statuary Hall for decades to come. Mrs. Bates was a civil rights act . . .