Poet Maya Angelou becomes first Black Woman to feature on US Coin
Highlights:
- Activist and Poet Maya Angelou has become the first black woman to appear on the US quarter, in a new version of the coin which was unveiled by the US Mint on January 10, 2022.
- The author of ‘I Know Why the Caged Birds Sings’, will also become the first figure commemorated through the American Women Quarters Program.
- It was signed into law in January 2021.
- As per the press release from the agency, the US Mint has started shipping the first coins with Maya Angelou’s likeness on the American Quarter, a 25 cent piece.
- Maya Angelou was born in Missouri in 1928.
- She was an essayist and poet who had worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X during the Civil Rights Movement.
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