Pauli Murray, the groundbreaking human rights activist, will be featured on United States quarters in 2024, the U.S. Mint announced this week.

Murray’s quarter is being issued as part of the Mint’s American Women Quarters Program, which began last year and “features coins with reverse (tails) designs emblematic of the accomplishments and contributions of American women.”

“The ethnically, racially, and geographically diverse group of individuals honored through this program reflects a wide range of accomplishments and fields, including suffrage, civil rights, abolition, government, humanities, science, space, and the arts,” the program description reads.

Described by the Mint as “one of the most important social justice advocates of the twentieth century,” Murray is noted for her work as a poet, writer, lawyer and activist, and for becoming the first Black woman in the U.S. to be ordained as an Episcopal priest.

In 1938, Murray applied to attend graduate school and study sociology at the then-all-white Unc-chapel Hill, but was denied admission because of her race.

Murray enrolled in law school at Howard University, where she was the only woman in her class and where she coined the term “Jane Crow” to describe the oppression she faced as a Black woman. She graduated from Howard at the top of her class in 1944.

She stayed active in the civil rights and gender equality movements, as well as other social justice causes, throughout her life. She died in 1985.

Her scholarly work outlined the idea for Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case that overturned segregation in schools, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg cited Murray as inspiration when she used the 14th Amendment to argue against sex discrimination in Reed v. Reed.