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Booker T. Washington Memorial Half-Dollar
31.  What coin and monument both honor another "Washington"?  The first coin to feature an African-American was the Booker T. Washington Memorial Half Dollar. It was minted from 1946 to 1951. A National Monument was designated to Washington in Hardy, Virginia, on April 5, 1956.

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