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One Nation Under God
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1. Top left. Chinese American architect I.M. Pei. Below: Daniel Inouye, Senator from Hawaii who lost his arm while fighting in the famous Japanese-American unit in World War II. ... Congresswoman Patsy ... of Hawaii and singer Marion Anderson.
2. Across the top. Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman from New York and Eleanor Roosevelt shown above the insignia of the United Nations. Below Clara Barton founder of the American Red Cross and Frances... early exponent of women's suffrage.
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4. Left to right: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, ... Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall ... and Cesar Chavez ... strike for migrant workers. Bottom left: Benjamin H. Banneker who assisted his friend ... surveying and marking the ... square boundaries of the new ... in 1791. Right: the Celtic Cross of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church which illustrates the ... One Nation Under God.
5. Top left, aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Right, the symbols of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Shintoism, and Buddhism.
6. The great Chief Sequoyah showing the Cherokee alphabet, above the contemporary author Vine Deloria. In smaller scale are two winners of the Medal of Honor: Lt. Ernest Childers, an Oklahoma Creek, and Lt. Jack Montgomery an Oklahoma Cherokee. The statue of Chief Crazy Horse is depicted at the Indian Mount Rushmore Thunderhead Mountain, South Dakota. Below: the great Sioux Chief ... Osceola, who never surrendered the Seminole Nation, and Chief ... who tried to establish a confederation between the Indian Nations.
7. Mexican Americans and Puerto Ricans above Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan. Vignetted in panel number five is Helen running wild as a child. Bottom right: the Rhododendron flower, Scottish Thistle, Masonic Emblem and Marine Corps Wings reminescent of Jack Kearney, in whose memory this window was given. |