If you have the opportunity to walk through the main hall at Union Station this week, I highly recommend you take it. Installed on the floor is a giant portrait of Ida B. Wells, created by artist Helen Marshall. Here are a few pictures of the installation.
Ida B. Wells, Journalist, Educator, and Civil Rights Leader. (RSP)
The mosaic is just inside the main entrance of the station (RSP)
It’s quieter in Union Station than usual, but there were still a handful of people here for the installation (RSP)
The picture of Wells is made out of individual images from the suffragette movement era. (RSP)
Here are three images used: Nora Stanton Blatch, one of the first female engineers, and the first to get an engineering degree from Cornell, a drawing of the March 3. 1913 suffrage march in Washington D.C., which included none other than Belva Lockwood, and Sojourner Truth (RSP)
You can read more about the installation, and Wells, here (RSP)
