The coin is the first in the American Women Quarters Program, a four-year effort. The Mint will issue five quarters a year to honor women in women’s suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science, and the arts. This year’s other honorees are Sally Ride, the first American woman in space; Wilma Mankiller, a Native American activist; Nina Otero-Warren, a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement; and Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American film star in Hollywood.
Representative Barbara Lee, a California Democrat, sponsored a bill “promoting the new coins’ creation, said in a statement last year that she was proud to have led an effort honoring the “phenomenal” women who were often overlooked in American history.”
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