For an entire school year, the Dr. Sally K. Ride Elementary School turned into Sally Ride Command Central.
There were Sally Ride coloring books to shade in and Sally Ride books to read and Sally Ride quarters to design. These paper coins would adorn the hallways come April 2022, when representatives of the U.S. Mint arrived in Germantown, Maryland, to celebrate. The first American woman in space was now part of another historic launch: One commemorating women’s achievements on U.S. quarters.
There were Sally Ride coloring books to shade in and Sally Ride books to read and Sally Ride quarters to design. These paper coins would adorn the hallways come April 2022, when representatives of the U.S. Mint arrived in Germantown, Maryland, to celebrate. The first American woman in space was now part of another historic launch: One commemorating women’s achievements on U.S. quarters.
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“We are going to have to be creative in the ways that we get this information out,” said Christian F. Nunes, the president of the National Organization for Women (NOW). “This is American history, but we are having to deal with states that are trying to eliminate American history.”
Nunes was recently at an event commemorating the newest coin to enter circulation: It honors the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, an LGBTQ+ poet, writer, activist and lawyer who was also the first Black woman ordained as an Episcopal priest and one of the co-founders of NOW. The word “hope” is sculpted across the quarter, with Murray’s face inside the letters. (Murray used he and she pronouns, but was primarily using she pronouns later in life.)