Extra Mile: KENNEDY SHRIVER, Eunice plaque in Washington, D.C. by Sam Pena

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Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver (born July 10, 1921 in Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.), is a member of the Kennedy family. Her father was Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and her mother was Rose Kennedy. On May 23, 1953 she married Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., who was U.S. Ambassador to France from 1968 to 1970 and the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate in 1972. She helped Ann McGlone Burke nationalize the Special Olympics movement in 1968 and is the only living woman whose portrait appears on a U.S. coin, the 1995 commemorative Special Olympics Silver Dollar. Source: Wikipedia

Special Olympicsis an international organization created to help people with intellectual disabilities develop self-confidence, social skills and a sense of personal accomplishment through sports training and competition. Among their other activities, Special Olympics conducts the Special Olympics World Games every four years. Source: Wikipedia

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

WHEN EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER FOUNDED SPECIAL OLYMPICS IN 1968, SHE ENVISIONED A PROGRAM OF ATHLETIC COMPETITION FOR PEOPLE WITH MENTAL RETARDATION THAT SIDELINED PREJUDICE AND SUBSTITUTED OPPORTUNITY AND UNDERSTANDING. THROUGH HER ADVOCACY, SHE HAS BROUGHT TO MILLIONS OF LIVES WHAT ALL PEOPLE DESERVE: A CHANCE TO CONNECT WITH THEIR FELLOW MAN, A CHANCE TO LIVE A LIFE WITHOUT WALLS.

"Special Olympics athletes are spokespersons for freedom itself -- they ask for the freedom to live, the freedom to belong, the freedom to contribute, the freedom to have a chance. And, of all the values that unite and inspire us to seek a better world, no value holds a higher place than the value of freedom."

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Artist: Sam Pena(click name for more of that artist's work)
Related subjects: Philanthropists; Women
Location: G St NW between 14th & 15th Sts Washington, D.C. Extra Mile

Nearest Metro: Federal Triangle(Orange - Blue - Silver) (click station name for all sculptures nearby) (dcMem ID #727 )

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Extra Mile website
Wikipedia article on Shriver
Wikipedia article on Special Olympics

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