According to a card accompanying the mural: “The design features a portrait of Dorothy Height, a beloved African American civil rights leader and women’s rights activist. Dorothy lived in SW, just around the corner from this mural, from 1983 until her passing. Surrounding her are various symbols representing DC and the region, inviting viewers to discover them. The artwork celebrates the empowerment of local diversity, the collective memories, and the resilience of its people.”

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I read about a new series of murals funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in Southwest DC decorating the walls of an underpass, so the three of us went to check them out. They weren’t the easiest thing to photograph, due to poor lighting, parked cars, busy bike lanes on either side of the roadway and traffic traveling through the underpass, but I managed to get all of them, one way or another (and lived to tell the tale).

The look of panic, posted earlier: