US Capitol statue of Johnny Cash to be unveiled in late September

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Man in Black is about to join many other pivotal figures in history in the US Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

It was announced in a congressional letter sent out Wednesday that the statue commemorating Arkansas native and country music legend Johnny Cash would be unveiled in the Statuary Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 24.

Cash’s statue will be joining a statue of civil rights leader Daisy Bates as the faces representing Arkansas in the hall. Bates’ statue had been unveiled back in May.

Back in 2019, Arkansas lawmakers voted to replace the statues of former Arkansas Gov. James P. Clarke and 19^th-century Little Rock lawyer Uriah Rose with statues of Cash and Bates.

The 8-foot-tall statue, mad...