THE COLLEGIAN
  • Home
  • News
  • On Campus
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • About
    • From the Editor
    • Meet the Team
    • Past Staff
    • Legal Statement

Entertainment 

Maya Angelou on the Quarter

1/25/2022

0 Comments

 
A new quarter program is set to begin this year featuring iconic women of US history. 

By Isabelle Delostrinos
Culture Columnist


Calling all quarter collectors! It’s time to brush the dust off those coin books from middle school, a new program is hitting the production line. Starting this month, the United States Mint is introducing the American Women Quarters Program. Every year until 2025, new quarters will be released featuring iconic women from U.S. history. This is amazing news as the iconic women of US history are being given honor and recognition on a nationwide level. 

Ever since their distribution in 1990, state quarters have become a widely popular collectible item. Each year, five states were selected to be etched onto the tails side of the quarter with production ending once the year was over. Collecting these coins became a scavenger hunt as the years went on, as all you had to do was spend some cash and go through your change to find each state. The simple activity soon became popular and had many people looking closely at their quarters. 
​
The first woman to be featured on the coin is celebrated writer, performer, and social activist, Maya Angelou. Her work, often described as honest and creative, has made a lasting imprint on American history. She is widely known as the author behind I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the first part of her autobiographical series. Angelou served as the northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference per the request of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and was also was the first African American woman to write and present a poem at a presidential inauguration in 1992 for President Clinton. 

The quarter will feature Maya Angelou with her arms raised and uplifted while a rising sun and bird in flight stretch behind her as an ode to how she lived her life. The head’s side will feature a portrait of George Washington composed and sculpted by Laura Gardin Fraser.

Quarters featuring the following women will also be produced: 
  • Dr. Sally Ride: first American woman in space
  • Wilma Mankiller: first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation
  • Nina Otero-Warren: leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement
  • Anna May Wong: First Chinese American film star in Hollywood
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    STAFF

    Andrew Martinez Cabrera '26,
    Editor-in-Chief
    ​

    Drew Paxman '27,
    Associate Editor

    Emily Brazeal '28
    On-Campus Columnist

    Bryce Miller
    Entertainment Columnist

    Nicholas Zuniga
    Entertainment Columnist

    Archives

    May 2025
    October 2024
    May 2024
    April 2024
    March 2024
    February 2024
    December 2023
    October 2023
    September 2023
    July 2023
    May 2023
    April 2023
    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    November 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • News
  • On Campus
  • Entertainment
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • About
    • From the Editor
    • Meet the Team
    • Past Staff
    • Legal Statement