Part of the American Women Quarters Program authorized by Congress in 2022, this issue belongs to the final year of a five-coin annual series that replaced the America the Beautiful program. Wells was a co-founder of the NAACP and led one of the earliest organized anti-lynching campaigns in American history, publishing meticulous statistical investigations into racial violence at considerable personal risk — her Memphis printing press was destroyed by a mob in 1892 after she documented that many lynching victims had no connection to the crimes attributed to them.
Part of the American Women Quarters Program authorized by Congress in 2022, this issue belongs to the final year of a five-coin annual series that replaced the America the Beautiful program. Wells was a co-founder of the NAACP and led one of the earliest organized anti-lynching campaigns in American history, publishing meticulous statistical investigations into racial violence at considerable personal risk — her Memphis printing press was destroyed by a mob in 1892 after she documented that many lynching victims had no connection to the crimes attributed to them.