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Art News -  Country music legend Johnny Cash will receive a statue in his honor in the United States capitol. It will be unveiled next month, House speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries announced on Thursday, NBC reported. ....His statue joins that of another Arkansas native, Daisy Bates, a civil rights leader who headed the state’s NAACP chapter and mentored the Black students who came to be known as the Little Rock Nine, and integrated Central High School in 1957. Her statue was unveiled on May 8 in National Statuary Hall. The two replace monuments of 19th-century American Bar Association president and Confederate sympathizer Uriah M. Rose and James P. Clarke, a late 18th-century and early 19th-century governor and US senator, and a white supremacist. Clarke’s racist remarks included calling on the Democratic Party to preserve “white standards of civilization.”