February 1, 2023
WASHINGTON – The United States Mint (Mint) is pleased to announce the following 2024 honorees for the American Women Quarters™ Program:
Pauli Murray was a poet, writer, activist, lawyer, and Episcopal priest, as well as a staunch advocate for civil rights, and fighting against racial and sex discrimination. In 1966, she co-founded the National Organization for Women with Betty Friedan and other activists. Murray is regarded as one of the most important social justice advocates of the twentieth century.