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25 Cents 'Washington Quarter' Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray
| Issuer | United States Mint |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a portrait of the Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray, her face framed by eyeglasses, set within a stylized rendering of the word HOPE — a visual motif symbolic of Murray's conviction that lasting societal reform must be grounded in hope. Surrounding design elements reference her celebrated poem Dark Testament, with the poetic phrase A SONG IN A WEARY THROAT inscribed prominently within the composition. The denomination 25 CENTS appears in the lower field, accompanied by the national legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA along the upper periphery and the motto E PLURIBUS UNUM. |
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| Reverse lettering | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A SONG IN A WEARY THROAT 25¢ THE REVEREND DR. PAULI MURRAY E PLURIBUS UNUM |
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Pauli Murray was a legal scholar whose 1950 book States' Laws on Race and Class directly informed Thurgood Marshall's NAACP litigation strategy, and whose arguments about equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment were later cited by Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the Supreme Court. Murray never lived to see that recognition — she died in 1985. The coin was issued under the American Women Quarters Program, authorized by Congress in 2020 to run through 2025.