Maya Angelou, Sally Ride to Be Among First Women Featured on U.S. Quarters

[IcyPeas]

Astronaut Sally Ride and poet Maya Angelou will be the first individuals honored through the American Women Quarters Program.

Between 2022 and 2025, the U.S. Mint is set to highlight up to 20 trailblazing American women

The majority of the United States’ circulating coins depict men, from former presidents to civil rights advocate Frederick Douglass to naturalist John Muir. Aside from the allegorical Lady Liberty, however, American women have largely been relegated to collectible and commemorative coins. Of the denominations currently accepted as legal tender, just three feature actual female figures: the Susan B. Anthony dollar, the Sacagawea dollar and the Alabama state quarter

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[Niagara]

1. Kicking for visibility!

It's about time.

[Talitha]

2. K&R - and Kudos to whoever thought of doing this!!!!