Celia Cruz is one of many women being featured on U.S. quarters as part of the American Women Quarters Program. Here are the other women honorees announced for next year’s coins.
were Sally Ride, the first woman astronaut; Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation; Nina Otero-Warren, a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement and the first female superintendent of Santa Fe public schools; and Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood.The quarters for 2023 began shipping last month and feature Bessie Coleman, Jovita Idar, Edith Kanakaʻole, Elanor Roosevelt, and Maria Tallchief.
The designs for 2024’s quarters will be released later this summer, with the quarters being shipped early next year.Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color to serve in Congress, will be featured on U.S. quarters throughout 2024 as part of the American Women Quarters Program. This photograph is from a news conference in Washington, D.C. in 1971.
Pauli Murray was a poet, writer, activist, lawyer, and Episcopal priest, as well as a staunch advocate for civil rights, fighting against racial and sex discrimination. Zitkala-Ša , also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a writer, composer, educator, and political activist for Native Americans’ right to United States citizenship and other civil rights they had long been denied.
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