[Dixielandjazz] Duke Ellington to be featured on US Commemorative Quarter

[Norman Vickers]

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From: Norman Vickers, Jazz Society of Pensacola

Ken Dryden, jazz writer from Chattanooga responds to post about the Ellington commemorative quarter.( I have combined two posts)fnv
Thanks, Ken



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From: Ken Dryden [mailto:Ken-Dryden at utc.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 9:19 AM


Whoever wrote the press release at the U.S. Mint did not do his or her homework. Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver have each appeared on U.S. Commemorative Half Dollars: Washington in 1946 and both he and Carver on a second coin.

I've owned one of each coin for decades.

Ken Dryden's second post:




It looks like the mistake was by the CNN reporter. There is no mention of Duke Ellington being the "First African-American on an American coin" anywhere in the press release posted at www.usmint.gov unless someone has already edited out the mistake.

Ken Dryden
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