This week on Lady History: It's the Season 2 Season Finale! This year the US Mint started a program to honor women with quarters with five new designs based on women from American history. Four of 2022's five honorees* have been covered by us on the show, so to celebrate the end of 2022 and the end of Season 2, we are taking a look back at outstanding orator Maya Angelou (S1 EP 12 "The Lady History Library"), famous first-flyer Dr. Sally Ride (S1 EP 23 "Space Oddities"), compassionate Chief Wilma Mankiller (S1 EP 11 "[Insert political joke here]"), and praiseworthy performer Anna May Wong (S1 EP 37 "Lights, Camera, Action").
Read more: https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/american-women-quarters
Logo by: Alexia Ibarra
Editing by: Alana Stolnitz
Music by: Alana Stolnitz
Archival audio in this episode is from Anna May Wong's performance in "Lady from Chungking," NASA's recording of Sally Ride's flight, radio Interview with the Director of "Mankiller". Audio of Maya Angelou: Courtesy; William J. Clinton Presidential Library
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*The honoree we have not covered is Nina Otero-Warren,a leader in New Mexico’s suffrage movement and the first woman superintendent of Santa Fe public schools. We hope to cover her story soon.