2024-D Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray U.S. Women Quarter
Denver Mint
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Get the Uncirculated Denver "D" mint mark issue of the 2024 U.S. Women Quarters Series that celebrates pioneering lawyer, professor, poet and priest Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray!
- First issue of 2024 and 11th in series
- Reverse 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
- Co-founder 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
- Obverse depicts George Washington as originally designed and sculpted by Laura Gardin Fraser to commemorate his 200th birthday for a 1932 quarter
Add this mint Uncirculated 2024-D Pauli Murray quarter to your collection now!
