Celia Cruz, the “Queen of Salsa,” will probably be featured on U.S. quarter

Salsa music icon Celia Cruz will probably be featured on the U.S. quarter, the U.S. Mint introduced, because it unveiled new faces of girls who will probably be on the 2024 cash. She is believed to be the primary Afro Latina to be on the coin. 

The “Queen of Salsa” was a Cuban American singer and probably the most standard Latin artists of the final century. The honor comes after a lifetime of achievements, together with 5 Grammy awards and a National Medal of Arts. 

Cruz was 78 when she died in 2003 – and later acquired a Posthumous Lifetime Achievement Grammy. 

The U.S. Mint listed the opposite winners as: Patsy Takemoto Mink, the primary girl of shade to serve in Congress; Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, a Civli War-era surgeon and abolitionist who crossed battle strains to take care of wounded troopers and the one girl to be awarded the Medal of Honor; Pauli Murray, a civil rights activist thought of to be one of many “most necessary social justice advocates within the twentieth century” and Zitkala-Ša, an activist for Native Americans’ proper to U.S. citizenship. 

U.S. Mint Director Ventris C. Gibson stated in a press release that each one the ladies being honored “made a big impression on our Nation in their very own distinctive method.” 

“The girls pioneered change throughout their lifetimes, not yielding to the established order imparted throughout their lives,” Gibson stated. “By honoring these pioneering girls, the Mint continues to attach America by means of cash that are like small artworks in your pocket.”

The designs for the quarters will probably be launched in mid-2023. The American Women’s Quarters Program is supposed to honor achievements made by girls, in line with the U.S. Mint.