The House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate have approved the date for a ceremony to unveil a statue of Johnny Cash at the U.S. Capitol.
The statue will officially become part of the National Statuary Hall collection on September 24th. Cash will become the second Arkansan to be recognized this year with a statue on Capitol Hill. The Johnny Cash statue will join the statue of Daisy Bates, a civil rights leader who headed Arkansas’ chapter of the NAACP and mentored the Black students known as the Little Rock Nine who integrated Central High School in 1957.
The 8-foot-tall statue of Cash, created by Little Rock sculptor Kevin Kresse, will show the singer with a guitar slung across his back and a Bible in his hand.
The unveiling ceremony is scheduled to take place on September 24 at the Emancipation Hall. Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Johnny Cash’s family are scheduled to be in attendance.
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