Poet and civil rights titan Maya Angelou, who passed away in 2014, will become the first-ever Black woman on a US quarter, reports Pink News.
Angelou’s coin went into circulation on Monday (10 January), and is the first in US Mint’s American Women Quarters program, which will also honour queer astronaut Sally Ride, Asian American actor Anna May Wong, Cherokee Nation leader Wilma Mankiller, and suffragette Nina Otero-Warren.
Angelou, the author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a memoir which details how writing and literature helped to deal with the racism and trauma in her life, is engraved with her armed raised in front of a flying bird and a rising sun, in honour of how she “used words to inspire and uplift.”
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