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5 'trailblazing American women' will appear on quarters in 2024, US Mint says
Five more history-making women will grace the backs of U.S. quarters in 2024.Earlier this week, the U.S. Mint announced the designs for the third year of the American Women Quarters Program.The following women will be recognized for their achievements on the reverse side of quarters in 2024, according to CNN and the U.S. Mint:The Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, a poet, writer, activist, and lawyer who was the first African-American woman to become an episcopal priest in the U.S.The Honorable Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the first Asian-American woman in CongressDr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only woman with a Medal of Honor, which she earned for her service as the first woman Army surgeon in the Civil War.Celia Cruz, a Cuban-American singer, cultural icon, and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century who was known as the “Queen of Salsa”Zitkala-Ša (Zit-Kala Sah), a writer, composer, educator and an activist for the rights of indigenous peopleIn the video player above: See images of the 2024 U.S. quarter designsIn a release on July 20, 2023, the U.S. Mint said the four-year program, which was authorized by Public Law 116-330, features coins with reverse (tails) designs “emblematic of the accomplishments and contributions of trailblazing American women.”The American Women Quarters Program began in 2022 and continues through 2025. Each year, five reverse quarter designs are introduced.“The ethnically, racially, and geographically diverse group of individuals honored through this program reflects a wide range of accomplishments and fields, including suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science, space, and the arts,” the U.S. Mint said in the release.The Secretary of the Treasury selects the women to be honored after consulting with the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, the National Women’s History Museum, and the Congressional Bipartisan Women’s Caucus, the U.S. Mint said.Video below: Clarified: Who is U.S. Congresswoman Patsy Takemoto Mink?“I am honored to announce the designs of the 2024 American Women’s Quarters Program,” Mint Director Ventris C. Gibson said. “These beautiful designs recognize the achievements of these extraordinary women, and add to the Mint’s rich history of telling our Nation’s story through enduring examples of numismatic art.”The U.S. Mint will produce about 600 million quarters for each of the honorees for 10 weeks each, according to CNN.Designs in the first two years of the program featured images related to Maya Angelou,Dr. Sally Ride,Wilma Mankiller,Nina Otero-Warren,Anna May Wong, Bessie Coleman, Edith Kanakaʻole, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jovita Idar, and Maria Tallchief, according to the U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarter Program website.Video below: Maya Angelou was the first Black woman to appear on the U.S. quarter
Five more history-making women will grace the backs of U.S. quarters in 2024.
Earlier this week, the U.S. Mint announced the designs for the third year of the American Women Quarters Program.
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The following women will be recognized for their achievements on the reverse side of quarters in 2024, according to CNN and the U.S. Mint:
- The Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, a poet, writer, activist, and lawyer who was the first African-American woman to become an episcopal priest in the U.S.
- The Honorable Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the first Asian-American woman in Congress
- Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, the only woman with a Medal of Honor, which she earned for her service as the first woman Army surgeon in the Civil War.
- Celia Cruz, a Cuban-American singer, cultural icon, and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century who was known as the “Queen of Salsa”
- Zitkala-Ša (Zit-Kala Sah), a writer, composer, educator and an activist for the rights of indigenous people
In the video player above: See images of the 2024 U.S. quarter designs
In a release on July 20, 2023, the U.S. Mint said the four-year program, which was authorized by Public Law 116-330, features coins with reverse (tails) designs “emblematic of the accomplishments and contributions of trailblazing American women.”
The American Women Quarters Program began in 2022 and continues through 2025. Each year, five reverse quarter designs are introduced.
Maya Angelou becomes first Black woman to appear on US quarter
“The ethnically, racially, and geographically diverse group of individuals honored through this program reflects a wide range of accomplishments and fields, including suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science, space, and the arts,” the U.S. Mint said in the release.
The Secretary of the Treasury selects the women to be honored after consulting with the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum, the National Women’s History Museum, and the Congressional Bipartisan Women’s Caucus, the U.S. Mint said.
Video below: Clarified: Who is U.S. Congresswoman Patsy Takemoto Mink?
“I am honored to announce the designs of the 2024 American Women’s Quarters Program,” Mint Director Ventris C. Gibson said. “These beautiful designs recognize the achievements of these extraordinary women, and add to the Mint’s rich history of telling our Nation’s story through enduring examples of numismatic art.”
The U.S. Mint will produce about 600 million quarters for each of the honorees for 10 weeks each, according to CNN.
Designs in the first two years of the program featured images related to Maya Angelou,Dr. Sally Ride,Wilma Mankiller,Nina Otero-Warren,Anna May Wong, Bessie Coleman, Edith Kanakaʻole, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jovita Idar, and Maria Tallchief, according to the U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarter Program website.
Video below: Maya Angelou was the first Black woman to appear on the U.S. quarter
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