Today's article on the Queens, please meet an extraordinarily woman. The first Black woman featured on US quarter coin is Maya Angelou. The poet and activist is shown with outstretched arms on the coin, which the Treasury Department has begun to circulate. The 25-cent coin, which shows Angelou with outstretched arms, went into circulation on Monday. Angelou, author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” will also be the first figure commemorated through the American Women Quarters Program, which was signed into law in January 2021. Angelou, who was born in Missouri in 1928, was an essayist and poet who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X during the Civil Rights Movement. Angelou, who delivered the poem at former President Bill Clinton’s first inauguration, died in 2014. Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies,
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