(CNN) Country music legend Johnny Cash and civil rights leader Daisy Gatson Bates will soon be immortalized as statues in the US Capitol building, replacing two controversial Confederate-era figures. Each state is allowed to keep two statues of historical figures in the National Statuary Hall of the Capitol Building, and Bates and Cash will represent Arkansas. But there were many opinions about which historic figures best represented our state," Hutchinson said in a press release . In the end, the Senate chose Daisy Lee Gatson Bates and Johnny Cash." The addition of Bates and Cash represents the state's history involving the civil rights movement and music, Hutchinson said.

Source: CNN April 17, 2019 22:18 UTC