WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States Mint said Monday it has started delivering quarters including the picture of writer Maya Angelou, the first coins in quite a while American Women Quarters Program.
Angelou, an American creator, writer and Civil Rights extremist, rose to conspicuousness with the distribution of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" in 1969. Angelou, who kicked the bucket in 2014 at 86 years old, was respected with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010 by President Barack Obama.
The quarter configuration portrays Angelou with outstretched arms. Behind her are a bird in flight and a rising sun, pictures enlivened by her verse.
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The mint's program will give 20 quarters throughout the following four years regarding ladies and their accomplishments in molding the country's set of experiences.
Extra honorees in 2022 will be physicist and first lady space explorer Sally Ride, and Wilma Mankiller, the main female head of the Cherokee Nation. Additionally respected for this present year will be Nina Otero-Warren, a forerunner in New Mexico's testimonial development and the principal female administrator of Santa Fe government funded schools, and Anna May Wong, the primary Chinese American film star in Hollywood.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, the Senate patron of regulation guiding the mint to give the quarters regarding ladies, acclaimed the Mint's determination of Angelou for the primary coin.
"This coin will guarantee ages of Americans find out with regards to Maya Angelou's books and verse that addressed the lived insight of Black ladies," she said in an assertion.
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Depository Secretary Janet Yellen, the country's first female Treasury secretary, said, "Each time we update our money, we get the opportunity to offer something about our nation … . I'm extremely glad that these coins praise the commitments of a portion of America's most momentous ladies, including Maya Angelou."
The Biden organization reported not long after taking office a year prior that it wanted to supplant Andrew Jackson's picture on the $20 note with abolitionist Harriet Tubman, an innovator in the Underground Railroad. Nonetheless, since that declaration the organization has given no further subtleties on its arrangements.
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