The images were created as woodcuts, then scanned and etched into existing glass panels in the double doors opening into the sanctuary.
Absalom Jones, the first African American ordained in the Episcopal Church, is shown in front of St. Thomas, the church he founded in Philadelphia.
Harriet Tubman is pictured as the Moses of her People, with a staff in her hand and, in the sky behind her, the Dipping Gourd pointing to the North Star. Her pose also recalls the medieval Virgin of Mercy, with
escaping slaves sheltering beneath her cloak.