{"id":4587,"date":"2022-06-20T11:27:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T15:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.totalengagementconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=4587"},"modified":"2022-06-20T11:27:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T15:27:11","slug":"diversity-in-money-blog-4-honoring-women-and-people-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.totalengagementconsulting.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/diversity-in-money-blog-4-honoring-women-and-people-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity in Money \u2013 Blog 4: Honoring Women and People with Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

\"\"<\/a>About two years ago, I introduced myself as a numismatist (collector of money) and published three blogs that intersected my hobby with my profession as a diversity, equity and inclusion consultant.<\/a> <\/strong>

In June, 2020 – \u201cBlack Lives Matter and the $20 Bill \u2013 an Awful American Travesty,\u201d<\/a><\/strong> I recounted the very sad story of how the approved plans to place African-American abolitionist Harriet Tubman on our $20 bill got derailed.

In July, 2020, I followed with – \u201cA Black Lives Matter and an American Coinage Travesty \u2013 blog 2,\u201d<\/a><\/strong> I recount the sad story of a Ku Klux Klan-inspired coin.

Then in December, 2020 – I connect our nation\u2019s monetary currency to diversity issues: in \u201cBrother, Can You Spare a Dime\u201d<\/a><\/strong> I recount how Republicans during the Great Depression attempted to censure this song.

Now I am pleased to share two areas of diversity highlighted in coinage and paper money.

The first is the next set of quarters now being issued in the USA celebrating women. For the past few decades, the United States Mint has issued 5 quarters a year with different reverse sides. For 11 years it was general facts about the 50 states and territories, and then after that, 11 years of Nationals Parks and Monuments. Now in 2022 a new cycle of 20 quarters has begun \u2013 celebrating diverse famous women of the USA. This year\u2019s five are:

\u2022 Maya Angelou \u2013 celebrated writer, performer, and social activist
\u2022 Dr. Sally Ride \u2013 physicist, astronaut, educator, and first American woman in space
\u2022 Wilma Mankiller \u2013 first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation
\u2022 Nina Otero-Warren \u2013 a leader in New Mexico\u2019s suffrage movement and the first female superintendent of Santa Fe public schools
\u2022 Anna May Wong \u2013 first Chinese American film star in Hollywood

I already have my first two that are already out. With only men gracing our major coinage and paper money, it is about time to include women on our circulating money.

Second is a cool article in the May, 2022 issue of the Numismatist Magazine titled \u201cDeaf Numismatics\u201d<\/a><\/strong> by Kenneth S. Rothschild. The byline of the article is \u201cMembers of the deaf community have achieved success in many fields, as currency worldwide attests.\u201d

Too often, people with disabilities have not been fully included in diversity discussions and recognized for overcoming their challenges to achieve great things. Deaf people (and their supportive allies) on worldwide money have included:<\/p>\r\n

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Cecilia Grierson, the first woman doctor in Argentina and pioneer for the education of the blind and deaf on their 5,000 peso note.<\/p><\/div>\r\n

\u2022 Australia\u2019s great story writer Henry Lawson on their first $10 bill
\u2022 Famous blind and deaf American Helen Keller on the American 2003 state quarter series
\u2022 Blind artist Pinturicchio, who lived in Italy over 600 years ago, on the San Marino two euro coin
\u2022 Denmark\u2019s Alexandra, wife of England\u2019s King Edward VII became deaf in later years and is honored on Papau New Guinea\u2019s 100-kina gold coin
\u2022 When North Carolina printed its own money during the American Civil War, it was printed at the North Carolina School for the Deaf, and the attribution is included on some the bills.

This comprehensive article includes many more, and I do hope The Numismatist follows up with some additional articles on other segments of the people with disabilities community.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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