In this series of 22 panels set into recessed areas above the subway station signs, symbolic figures move about and interact with one another. Although separated by spacing between panels, each is linked by their graphic quality to form a relationship with those nearby. The artist explains his concept: "As a unit they form a composite to symbolically show as in a 'union' the best of each part of racial, religious, and cultural life make the most positive picture. The community above the Union Street station is mirrored in these panels because they are successfully working at making their community into this reality." Additionally, the station has a series of track wall panels designed by the artist.

Emmett Wigglesworth is a muralist, painter, sculptor, fabric designer and poet who has been creating for over five decades. He was born in Philadelphia, where he attended the College of Art and later enlisted in the military, before moving to New York in 1958. In 1959 Wigglesworth began his participation in the Civil Rights movement and in the early 1960s he worked with the CORE Freedom School in Selma, Alabama, teaching art. During that same period, he wrote and directed two plays for the CORE Freedom Theater in San Francisco, CA. In 1968 he designed the interior and exterior of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Theater in Brooklyn. He has designed costumes and stage sets, has exhibited in Ghana, and throughout the U.S.; has designed and illustrated several books and magazines for publishing companies; and has written poetry, which he combines with his printmaking. Wigglesworth is an Artist-in-Residence at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL).