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Wed, 08.07.1946

The First Black Designs a Coin for the U.S. Mint

*On this date in 1946, the first U.S. Mint was created by a Black Sculptor, Isaac Hathaway, who was chosen as the designer of the American coin.

President Harry S. Truman authorized the U.S. Mint to commission a fifty-cent piece "to commemorate the life and perpetuate the ideas and teachings of Booker T. Washington."

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Look at me, I’m as helpless as a kitten up a tree, And I feel like I’m clinging to a cloud, I can’t understand, I get misty just holding... MISTY by Erroll Garner.
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