Maya Angelou And Nina Otero-Warren Are Being Added To U.S. Quarters

By Essence ·Updated October 8, 2021

Maya Angelou and Nina Otero-Warren are being immortalized in coin form thanks to a new program at the U.S. Mint. 

According to a statement from the U.S. Mint, the American Women Quarters Program Coins featuring the writer and activist and “first female superintendent of Sante Fe schools” are being created as the result of a program that was “authorized by Public Law 116-330.” The program will be taking

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