DC -- The Extra Mile Points of Light Volunteer Pathway:
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- XMILE_070418_26.JPG: Dorothea Dix (1802-1887)
Inspired by her social conscience, Dorothea Dix launched a self-financed career aimed at improving the lives of the mentally ill. Her crusade to document squalid institutional living conditions and inhumane treatment built public awareness and redefined political thought, leading to more benevolent treatment practices.
"I encounter nothing which a determined will, created by the necessities of the cause I advocate, does not enable me to vanquish."
- XMILE_070418_29.JPG: Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906):
Blessed with an individual and self-disciplined spirit, Susan B. Anthony persevered through the prejudice and culture of her time to emerge as the architect of a movement which secured the passage of the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote. Her belief that U.S. citizenry entitled everyone to the same rights under the Constitution formed her platform for lifelong activism.
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation."
- XMILE_070418_34.JPG: Jane Addams (1860-1935):
In 1889, with Ellen Gates Starr, Jane Addams founded Hull House in Chicago, one of the nation's first settlement houses. It served as a community center for the poor and its success helped lead to the creation of hundreds of similar organizations in communities across the country. An active reformer throughout her career, Jane Addams was a leader in the women's suffrage and pacifist movements. She was the first American woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
"Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world."
- XMILE_070418_38.JPG: Ida Wells-Barnett (1862-1931):
Ida Wells-Barnett crusaded aggressively for civil rights her entire life and was unafraid to exercise those rights when custom ran contrary to the law. Involved in many civil rights causes, she played leadership roles in the women's suffrage movement and in the founding of the NAACP. Ida Wells-Barnett became the era's most outspoken crusader for ending the practice of lynching African-Americans.
"I'd rather go down in history as one lone Negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing than to save me skin by taking back what I have said."
- Wikipedia Description: The Extra Mile
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Extra Mile - Points of Light Volunteer Pathway is a national monument installed in the sidewalks of Washington D.C.. It is located along 15th Street and G Street. The honorees of the monument are people who "through their caring and personal sacrifice, reached out to others, building their dreams into movements that helped people across America and throughout the world". Each honoree has a custom-made bronze medallion installed along the path. It currently has 20 such monuments, but there are plans to extend it down to 11th Street and back up F Street so it forms a mile-long pathway of 70 medallions. The monument was dedicated on October 14, 2005 in a ceremony attended by George H.W. Bush and Laura Bush.
Included Persons:
* Edgar Allen - Founder, Easter Seals
* Clara Barton - Founder, American Red Cross
* Ballington & Maud Booth - Founder, Volunteers of America
* William D. Boyce - Founder, Boy Scouts of America
* Cesar Chavez - Co-founder, United Farm Workers of America
* Ernest Kent Coulter - Founder, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America
* Frederick Douglass - Abolitionist
* Millard & Linda Fuller - Founder and co-founder, Habitat for Humanity
* Charlotte & Luther Gulick - Founder, Camp Fire USA
* William Edwin Hall - Founder, Boys and Girls Clubs of America
* Paul Harris - Founder, Rotary International
* Edgar J. Helms - Founder, Goodwill Industries
* Melvin Jones - Founder, International Association of Lions Clubs
* Helen Keller - Founder, American Foundation for the Blind
* Martin Luther King, Jr - Civil Rights Leader
* Juliette Gordon Low - Founder, Girl Scouts of America
* Mary White Ovington/W.E.B. Dubois - Founders, NAACP
* Eunice Kennedy Shriver - Founder, Special Olympics
* Harriet Tubman - Leader of Underground Railroad Effort to Free Slaves
* Booker T. Washington - Civil Rights Leader
Additional Honorees (Their medallions will be installed in additional ceremonies):
* Jane Addams - Founder, Hull House
* Susan B. Anthony - Suffragist
* Roger Baldwin - Founder, American Civil Liberties Union
* Ida Wells-Barnett - Leader of the Anti-Lynching Movement
* Clifford Beers - Founder of the Modern Mental Healthcare Movement
* Wallace Campbell - Founder, CARE
* Rachel Carson - Environmentalist
* Dorothea Dix - Advocate of the Reform of Institutions for the Mentally Ill
* Samuel Gompers - Founder, American Federation of Labor
* John Muir - Conservationist
* Robert Smith/William Wilson - Co-Founders, Alcoholics Anonymous
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