The Extra Mile

The Extra Mile – Points of Light Volunteer Pathway is a memorial in Washington D.C. Located adjacent to the White House, the monument is composed of 34 bronze medallions honoring 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".^[1] The medallions, every 42 inches in diameter, are embedded in sidewalks that form a one-mile walking path bounded by Pennsylvania Avenue, 15th Street, G Street, and 11th Street, NW.^[2]^{[full citation needed]} Each medallion includes a bas-relief likeness of one or more honorees, a description of their achievement and a quotation.

The Extra Mile was founded by John A. Johansen in 1992. Planning and development for the monument were managed by the Make a Difference Foundation until its merger with the Points of Light Foundation in 2002. The Extra Mile memorial was dedicated on October 14, 2005 in a ceremony attended by President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush.

Extra Mile Honorees

Jane Addams – Founder, Hull House
Edgar Allen – Founder, Easter Seals
Ethel Percy Andrus – Founder, AARP
Susan B. Anthony – Suffragist
Roger Nash Baldwin – Founder, American Civil Liberties Union
Ruth Standish Baldwin / Dr. George Haynes – Founders, National Urban League
Ida Wells-Barnett – Leader of the anti-Lynching movement
Clara Barton – Founder, American Red Cross
Clifford Beers – Founder of the modern mental healthcare movement
Ballington & Maud Booth – Founders, Volunteers of America
William D. Boyce – Founder, Boy Scouts of America^[2]
Wallace Campbell – Founder, CARE
Rachel Carson – Environmentalist
Cesar Chavez – Co-founder, United Farm Workers of America
Ernest Kent Coulter – Founder, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America
Dorothea Dix – Advocate of the Reform of Institutions for the Mentally Ill
Frederick Douglass – abolitionist
Millard & Linda Fuller – Founder and Co-founder, Habitat for Humanity
Hector Garcia – Founder, American G.I. Forum
Samuel Gompers – Founder, American Federation of Labor
Charlotte & Luther Gulick – Founder, Camp Fire
William Edwin Hall – President, Boys and Girls Clubs of America
Paul Harris – Founder, Rotary International
Dorothy Height – Civil Rights Leader
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 the USA
John Muir – Conservationist
Mary White Ovington / W. E. B. Du Bois – Founders, NAACP
Eunice Kennedy Shriver – Founder, Special Olympics
Robert Smith/William Wilson – Co-founders, Alcoholics Anonymous
Harriet Tubman – Leader of Underground Railroad Effort to Free Slaves
Booker T. Washington – Civil Rights Leader

References

^ Microsoft Word – Extra Mile One Pager Web site.doc(archive)
^ ^a ^b "William D. Boyce Honored at New National Monument in Washington, D.C." Boy Scouts of America. Retrieved 2008-10-15.

External links

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[1] Microsoft Word – Extra Mile One Pager Web site.doc(archive)

[BSAmem-2] "William D. Boyce Honored at New National Monument in Washington, D.C." Boy Scouts of America. Retrieved 2008-10-15.

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Memorials	Adams African American Civil War American Veterans Disabled for Life John Barry Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument Mary McLeod Bethune Boy Scout James Buchanan John Carroll D.C. War Albert Einstein Emancipation Dwight D. Eisenhower John Ericsson David Farragut First Division Thomas Gallaudet James A. Garfield Kahlil Gibran Samuel Gompers Ulysses S. Grant Holocaust Museum Holodomor Genocide Andrew Jackson Japanese American Patriotism During World War II Jefferson Memorial Lyndon Baines Johnson Grove John Paul Jones Marquis de Lafayette Law Enforcement Officers Lincoln Memorial statue Martin Luther King, Jr. Korean War Veterans George Mason George B. McClellan George Meade Peter Muhlenberg National Statuary Hall Collection Navy – Merchant Marine Nuns of the Battlefield Peace Monument John J. Pershing Second Division Signers of the Declaration of Independence The Extra Mile Three Soldiers Jean de Rochambeau Franklin Delano Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Island Taras Shevchenko Statues of the Liberators Oscar Straus Robert A. Taft Titanic United States Navy Victims of Communism Vietnam Veterans Vietnam Women's Washington Monument Daniel Webster World War I World War II Rainbow Pool
Other	Basilica of the Immaculate Conception Blair House Capitol Reflecting Pool Congressional Cemetery DAR Constitution Hall Exorcist steps First Air Mail Marker Ford's Theatre Petersen House Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Healy Hall Hillwood Estate and Museum Islamic Center Jefferson Pier John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Library of Congress Jefferson Adams Madison National Arboretum National Capitol Columns National Building Museum National Gallery of Art Lincoln's Cottage at Soldiers' Home Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool National Archives National Cathedral National Mall Octagon House Old Post Office Old Stone House Smithsonian Institution St. John's Episcopal Church The Arts of War and The Arts of Peace Tidal Basin Treasury Building Freedman's Bank Building Tudor Place Union Station United States Capitol Capitol Hill Dome Rotunda United States Supreme Court Building Watergate complex White House Willard Hotel
Parks and plazas	Constitution Gardens Dupont Circle East Potomac Park Farragut Square Freedom Plaza Lafayette Square L'Enfant Plaza Meridian Hill Park National Arboretum Pershing Park President's Park Rock Creek Park The Ellipse Union Square United States Botanic Garden West Potomac Park
Boundaries	Anacostia River Arlington Memorial Bridge Boundary markers of the original District of Columbia Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Constitution Avenue Francis Scott Key Bridge Pennsylvania Avenue Potomac River Zero Milestone
Nearby landmarks	Arlington National Cemetery Tomb of the Unknown Soldier John F. Kennedy gravesite Arlington House Marine Corps War Memorial Mount Vernon Netherlands Carillon Pentagon Pentagon Memorial United States Air Force Memorial Women in Military Service for America Memorial
Planned	Adams Memorial National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial National Liberty Memorial Peace Corps Commemorative
Canceled	George Washington Memorial Building Gold Star Mothers National Monument Mammy memorial National Slave Memorial
Related	National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission National Mall and Memorial Parks List of National Historic Landmarks in Washington, D.C. National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
Public art in Washington, D.C. (American Revolution Statuary, Civil War Monuments, Commemorating African-Americans, Outdoor sculpture)