>> women's suffragist journalist and civil rights icon Ida B Wells is being immortalized as part of the U.S. Mint's American women Quarters program.

The Chicago icon is in good company.

The 2025 coin circulation includes Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low astronomer, Vera Ruben, Disability, Justice Advocate Stacey Park, Melbourne and Tennis star Althea Gibson.

She's one of 20.

She rose honored in this collection were caught up with her great grandson for his thoughts on the recognition.

>> The lady that was having part of it is a it's about time and far currently written other countries have women on their currency.

Us in the minority for not doing that.

So we appreciate that.

But that's catching up.

But when you talk about, I think part of the difficulty in honoring I've been talking about it and how great she was and courageous she was.

You're going to talk about with the country was going through at the time, which is not pleasant.

All right.

And so to be able to recognize or and open dialogue about who she is, what she did.

She not she met with President William McKinley 18.

98 to try and get lynching to be a federal crime.

Women in general black women in particular have been it undervalued or erased from history.

There's still so many African American people who were the first.

So she was kind of America's first investigative journalist.

Just happen to be African-American woman, but to allow heard story to be told for Inspire other, especially African-American young women to be courageous and speak