The Maya Angelou coin is the first in a series called “Prominent American Women”, which will honor various illustrious women.
The effigy of the African-American poet and activist Maya Angelou appears in a new generation of “quarters”, the famous American 25-cent coins, The first copies of which were already minted by the United States Mint and will soon be in circulation.
The coins will be produced in large volumes for everyday use and minted in Philadelphia and Denver, according to a statement released Monday.
The new edition is the result of a bill by California-elect Democratic legislator Barbara Lee, voted in late 2020.
The 25 cent coin, the most used in the United States, It had only been minted in alternative versions since 1932 with the series of 50 representative coins of each state, in the 2000s, and then with that of national parks, between 2010 and 2021.
Maya Angelou’s is the first issue in a series called “Prominent American Women”, which will honor various illustrious women as Sally Ride, the astronaut and physicist; Wilma Mankiller, first Native American woman head of the Cherokee Nation; Nina Otero-Warren, Hispanic politician and activist; and actress Anna May Wong, hailed as the first star of Asian descent.
Known for her memoirs and poetry, Maya Angelou, who died in 2014 at age 86, She is considered one of the most emblematic authors on the condition of black communities in the United States.
Friend of the black activist and religious leader Malcolm X and activist in the movement of the leader and pastor Martin Luther King, Marguerite Johnson, her first name, wrote extensively about life in the southern United States, a region historically marked by racial segregation and where she is originally from. (I)
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