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Poet Maya Angelou becomes the first Black woman to appear on a US quarter (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jan 2022
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Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)1. me want!!!
Skittles
(170,184 posts)2. beautiful
Ohio Joe
(21,896 posts)3. Nice!
Totally Tunsie
(11,671 posts)4. It's a matter of opinion, of course, but
I would have preferred that honor went to Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president. While I have hope she'll be on a later coin release, it would have been nice for her to be, in this instance also, the first.
Nice coin though...Oprah will be happy.
I_UndergroundPanther
(13,351 posts)5. Oooh
Want one!
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)6. Love it, but not the first woman of color. Let's remember that.
underpants
(195,550 posts)7. Love it. Just saw this on CNN.

