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The American Women quarters program is a series of quarters featuring notable women in U.S. history, commemorating the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. [1] The United States Mint is issuing five designs each year from 2022 to 2025 for 20 total designs.
Always the trailblazer, Maya Angelou today becomes the first Black woman ever to appear on a U.S. Quarter. Well deserved. — Rep. Val Demings (@RepValDemings) January 10, 2022
The American Women Quarters Program was developed and approved by Congress this year to celebrate the contributions of notable women in U.S. history. See the 2022 quarters that will feature ...
Angelou, who died in 2014 at the age of 86, was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010 by President Barack Obama. Poet Maya Angelou Is First Black Woman On U.S. Quarter Skip to ...
Angelou was awarded more than fifty honorary degrees. [3] In 2021, the United States Mint announced that Angelou would be among the first women depicted on the reverse of the quarter as a part of the American Women quarters series. [159] [160] The coins were released in January 2022. She is the first Black woman to be depicted on a quarter.
The United States' new quarter celebrates Maya Angelou, making the poet and activist the first...
President Obama wrongly attributed the sentence to Angelou during the presentation of the 2013 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal. [56] 2017 Residence hall named in Angelou's honor at Wake Forest University. The first building at Wake Forest named for an African-American and the second named for a female faculty member. [57] 2018
The first coin The post Whoopi Goldberg says Maya Angelou deserves more than a quarter on ‘The View’ appeared first on TheGrio. On Tuesday’s episode of The View, Whoopi Goldberg shared her ...