An 8-foot-tall statue of Little Rock civil rights leader Daisy Bates is to be unveiled at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, May 8. In September, a statue of singer Johnny Cash is also scheduled to be unveiled, culminating a five-year process that began when the Arkansas Legislature approved replacing the state’s two existing statues in Washington, DC.  Host Steve Barnes is joined by members of the Statuary Hall Steering Committee, Chairman Shane Broadway and Charles King, president of the Daisy Bates House Museum Foundation Board. They discuss how sculptors Benjamin Victor and Kevin Kresse were selected, what’s planned for the Bates ceremony, and the role she played as advisor and mentor of the Little Rock Nine who desegregated Central High School in 1957.

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