A statue honoring Civil Rights activist Barbara Rose Johns will be unveiled Tuesday on Capitol Hill, taking the spot upon which a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once stood.

The statue will represent Virginia in the Capitol building, honoring Johns for famously taking a stand against racial segregation in education by organizing a student-led strike against the unequal conditions in her Farmville, Virginia, high school. Johns was 16 years old when she led the walk-out at Moton High School, and the statue will depict her as a teenager.

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