2024 Colorized Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray U.S. Women Quarter
$4.25
Get the first 2024 U.S. Women Quarters Series and 11th in the series vividly colorized by Littleton's artists!
- Struck for a limited time, the quarter honors a brilliant legal mind whose quiet, yet trailblazing achievements are finally receiving long overdue public recognition
- Murray was first in her law school class at Howard College (now university) and the only woman
- First African American deputy attorney general in California
- States Laws on Race and Color, Murray's 776-page compilation on segregation called “the bible” of the Civil Rights Movement
- Cofounder of the National Organization for Women
- First African American to earn a Yale University Law School doctorate to teach law
- First African-American woman ordained an Episcopal priest
- Designed by Emily Damstra of the U.S. Mint's Artistic Infusion Program and sculpted by Medallic Artist Joseph Menna, uses a phrase from Murray's poem Dark Testament: a song in a weary throat
- Designed by Emily Damstra of the U.S. Mint’s Artistic Infusion Program and sculpted by Chief Engraver Joseph Menna
- Vibrantly enhanced in full color by Littleton artists
Add this commemorative quarter about the trailblazing African-American civil rights lawyer, professor, poet and priest, Pauli Murray, to your collection or give as a present to a young collector today!
