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Recently I was talking with a friend about United States coins with living people depicted on them, the conversation inspired me to write this blog.
In 1936 the San Francisco Mint minted a commemorative coin to commemorate the opening of San Francisco’s Oakland Bay bridge.
The 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition commemorative coins were made to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal. The sale of the commemorative coins helped fund the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The Panama Pacific International Exposition was held in San Francisco so all of the commemorative coins were struck at the San Francisco Mint.
I won a Chief Justice, John Marshall uncirculated commemorative coin in the YN Auction last year, I decided to write a blog about it and its history.
The World's Fair: Columbian Exposition
Marquis de Lafayette
Laura Gardin was born on September 14, 1889. When she was little, she went to Morton Park schools. Laura later attended school in Rye, New York then the Horace Mann School in New York City. James Fraser taught her at the Art Students League of New York. She and James fell in love and were married.
In March 1946, Jackie Robinson was traveling from California to Florida, hoping to become the first African American baseball player to break segregation laws in Florida. That spring, Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, decided he was going to lift the color bar. The color bar was a system of written and unwritten rules, which kept baseball players separated by race. He decided to let Jackie Robinson become the first person to play integrated baseball in Florida. On March 17, 1946, Jackie Robinson stepped onto City Island Ballpark in Daytona, in an exhibition game against the Dodgers. It was the first time a black player played for a minor league team against a major league team since the color bar was implemented in baseball in the 1880’s. This made Daytona Beach the very first city in Florida to allow integrated baseball when segregation laws were enforced. It was ahistorical moment that paved the way for other baseball teams in Florida to allow integrated baseball. It served as a spark for the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Jackie Robinson made my success possible, without him, I would never have been able to do what I did.”