Johnny Cash statue to be unveiled at US Capitol to represent Arkansas

A bronze statue of the country musician Johnny Cash was set to be unveiled on Tuesday at the US Capitol as one of two representations there for the state of Arkansas.

Cash was born in the small town of Kingsland outside of Little Rock. He would go on to become one of the bestselling artists of all time, with 90m records sold. He was inducted into both the Country Music and Rock and Roll halls of fame in his lifetime. He died in 2003 at the age of 71.

Cash will join a statue of the civil rights leader Daisy Bates, a member of the Little Rock Nine who were key figures in integrating public schools that had been racially segregated. Her statue was unveiled in May.

The two new statues replaced ones that honored Uriah Rose and James Paul Clarke. Rose helped create the American Bar Association and was a Confederate sympathizer. Clarke was a lawmaker in the state in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The two statues of Rose and Clarke had been in the Capitol for more than 100 years.

The Associated Press contributed reporting