The US Mint wants you to help choose the pioneering women that will appear on its new quarters

[demmiblue]

Following coins that put the spotlight on Duke Ellington, the Tuskegee Airmen and Samoan fruit bats, a new run of quarters will call attention to pioneering American women.

It's part of the US Mint's "American Women Quarters Program," which will stamp circulating quarters with the faces of women who have made "significant contributions to the US." (George Washington's face will remain on the quarter's front, albeit with a new design.)

The first two honorees have already been chosen: esteemed poet Maya Angelou and gender-barrier-breaking astronaut Sally Ride.

The rest of the lineup will be decided by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen -- with input from the American public.

The National Women's History Museum is accepting submissions for the program, which was authorized by the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020. Under that measure, all of the women who appear on the coins must be deceased -- Ride died in 2012, while Angelou died in 2014. Otherwise, the criteria are fairly broad.

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/us-mint-american-women-quarters-submissions-trnd/index.htm

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. So many, many choices. I hope they come up with some of the women of note who are less...

well known because 150 years ago women were not supposed to "get involved" with scholarly or scientific doings. And never, never, politics.

[orleans]

41. it appears people can nominate

https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/american-women-quarters

and a link from the above ("Call for Recommendations&quot https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqWjRHVCn5LXSehxtyvzAsvtZrrVctznlVEfuF-DfQeDiHrQ/viewform

[PoliticAverse]

2. "Samoan fruit bats" ?! n/t

[Hekate]

17. They're a real thing, but why on quarters?

Someone will come along and tell me why I’m bad for laughing.

[JHB]

22. Info here

Can only copy url at the moment, but it explains how it's part of an "America the Beautiful" quarters program.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/12/us/fruit-bat-coin-trnd/index.html

[Hekate]

28. That makes sense, then

[MontanaMama]

3. Jeanette Rankin

The first woman to hold federal elected office. She was elected to the House of Representatives (as a republican, no less) from Montana in 1919.

[Deminpenn]

33. And, true to her pacifist convictions, the only Representative

to vote against the declaration of war against Japan after the attack at Pearl Harbor.

[Mr.Bill]

4. Michelle Obama.

Just to make some fucking heads spin.

[roamer65]

5. They have to be deceased.

May Michelle live long and prosper!

[Mr.Bill]

7. So make an exception.

Just to make more heads spin.

Serious ideas: Jacqueline Kennedy, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosa Parks, Shirley Chisolm.

[roamer65]

8. If you are going to make an exception...Hillary Clinton.

That will send them into a rabid foam.

[Mr.Bill]

9. Great Idea.

[Hortensis]

24. Yes, Hillary: our first people's choice, though not sworn in, female president.

How about if it's just the peoples' sovereignty that was beheaded?

[Probatim]

13. If Rosa Parks isn't on a quarter, it'd be a damned disgrace.

[roamer65]

30. Yes.

Very true.

[sarge43]

35. Miss Ella, of course. Also, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey

[roamer65]

6. Eleanor Roosevelt.

I just recommended her.

[geardaddy]

12. Absolutely.

And Margaret Sanger, to make the anti-choice heads spin.

[PoliticAverse]

23. No eugenicists, please. n/t

[geardaddy]

54. Yeah, you're right.

[Deminpenn]

34. For sure

You could probably add Frances Perkins, too.

[Drum]

10. RBG n/t

[roamer65]

11. Hell yeah!

[MLAA]

18. Oh yeah!

[Bristlecone]

39. My vote goes here

So many deserve it however.

[bdamomma]

48. that's a good idea

nt

[SpankMe]

14. My mom! n/t

[Harker]

42. Nice touch! n/t

[James48]

15. Rosa Parks

Hands down.

[MLAA]

19. For sure

[Deminpenn]

36. Before her, Ida B Wells

suffragette.

[sarge43]

16. Grace Hopper

"Dare and Do"

[PoliticAverse]

21. + for Admiral Grace Murray Hopper!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

[lpbk2713]

27. You beat me to it.

Truly Amazing Grace.

[USALiberal]

59. COBOL! She is great! Nt

[catsudon]

20. Harriet Tubman

Good enough for $20 means good enough on more currencies

[Botany]

25. Rosalind Franklin

English but she figured out DNA.

[bucolic_frolic]

26. Let's really rouse Republican cries of "Socialism!!"

Emma Goldman

[sarge43]

29. Rachel Carson

Silent Spring

[littlemissmartypants]

31. Great post!!! Have you considered cross posting?

●Subheading:
Gender & Orientation

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1136

•Feminism and Diversity Group

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1254

•Feminists Group

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1139

•History of Feminism Group

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1255

•LGBT Group

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1137

•LGBT Civil Rights and Activism Group

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1169

•Women's Rights & Issues Group

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1138

•Women's World Group

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1184


●Subheading:
Arts & Humanities

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1025

•American History Group

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1163

●Subheading:
Race & Ethnicity

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1185

•African American Group

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1187

•Asian Group

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1250

•Latino/Hispanic Group

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1190

•First Americans Group

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1191

❤ pants

[nattyice]

32. How about Liz Cheney?

[flibbitygiblets]

43. LOL

[reACTIONary]

49. If only she had passed away. nt

[AllaN01Bear]

37. ms . Eleanor roosevelt.

[kimmylavin]

38. FRANCES PERKINS

Labor advocate.
First woman in a presidential cabinet.
Longest serving Labor Secretary.

Amazing woman.

[ZonkerHarris]

50. this

[gratuitous]

40. Molly Ivins

But nobody would ever want to spend one. I'd keep all the ones I got.

[pepperbear]

44. Sojourner Truth

[WarGamer]

45. I'd love to see Rosie the Riveter coin.

She's a lot more than a fictional white homemaker turned machinist for the war.

She's a symbol for decades of women of all colors and backgrounds.

[roamer65]

46. Amelia Earhart.

Just submitted her name.

She should definitely be on one.

[Hugin]

55. I've been reading about her extensively over the past few years.

Certainly a pioneer.

[Staph]

47. How about Wilma Mankiller, first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation?

And while I was looking her up in Wikipedia, I was reminded of Wilma Rudolph, the sprinter. She won a bronze medal in Melbourne in 1956 and three golds in Rome in 1960.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

51. Wilma Mankiller

First female chief of The Cherokee Nation

[SKKY]

52. Adm. Grace Hopper

[Javaman]

53. Katherine Johnson

Creola Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights.[1] During her 33-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for mastering complex manual calculations and helped pioneer the use of computers to perform the tasks. The space agency noted her "historical role as one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist".[2]

Johnson's work included calculating trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths for Project Mercury spaceflights, including those for astronauts Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and John Glenn, the first American in orbit, and rendezvous paths for the Apollo Lunar Module and command module on flights to the Moon. Her calculations were also essential to the beginning of the Space Shuttle program, and she worked on plans for a mission to Mars.

In 2015, President Barack Obama awarded Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2016, she was presented with the Silver Snoopy Award by NASA astronaut Leland D. Melvin and a NASA Group Achievement Award. She was portrayed by Taraji P. Henson as a lead character in the 2016 film Hidden Figures. In 2019, Johnson was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by President Donald Trump. In 2021, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson

[Greybnk48]

56. Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett (Moderna Vaccine)

and all the women named in other threads. And remember, all great heroes are flawed, because they're human.

[Volaris]

57. Laura Ingalls Wilder?

On edit--oh wait lol..I sort of misread the headline!

Amelia Erhardt, then..I guess. Or Molly Brown. Not just someone who forged a path, but had them some good fun kicking the menfolk in the balls for doing it.

[Demsrule86]

58. Alice Paul...she and her fellow suffragettes fought for the vote for women and

opened the door to equality.

[Hugin]

60. Excellent suggestion.

There needs to be a suffragette in there. Particularly, in current times.