var cr=[{"No":1,"Name":"Am I Not A Man","Title":"","Year":1837,"Type":"Anti-Slavery Token","Description":"In 1837 and 1838 Am I Not a Man and Am I Not a Woman were released.  Anti-slavery coins were made popular in Britain. These tokens supported both the abolishment of slavery and women's rights."},
{"No":2,"Name":"Am I Not A Woman","Title":"","Year":1838,"Type":"Anti-Slavery Token","Description":" The Am I Not a Woman and a Sister coin was more popular than the male coin.  However, Am I Not a Man and a Brother is so rare collectors believe there are only 4 in existence."},
{"No":3,"Name":"Booker T Washington","Title":"Educator ","Year":1946,"Type":"Silver Half Dollar","Description":"Booker T Washington received a commemorative coin in 1946.  An educator, he was one of the foremost African-American leaders of his time. Born into slavery, Washington went on to found what later became Tuskegee University in 1881.    "},
{"No":4,"Name":"Booker T/Washington Carver","Title":"Educator and Inventor","Year":1947,"Type":"Silver Half Dollar","Description":"Friends in real life, Booker T Washington and George Washington Carver shared a commemorative coin.  Carver a prominent scientist and inventor is most famous for developing hundreds of uses for the peanut.  His relationship with Booker T Washington began after he received his Masters and was hired to teach agriculture at  Tuskegee."},
{"No":5,"Name":"Marian Anderson","Title":"Opera Singer","Year":1978,"Type":"Bronze  Medal","Description":"Famed Opera singer Marian Anderson crossed color lines.  Though she was unable to use the bathroom at the opera house, internationally she was a superstar who will be honored again in 2020.  She is slated to be on the back of the $5 bill."},
{"No":6,"Name":"Marian Anderson","Title":"Opera Singer","Year":1980,"Type":"Gold Medallion","Description":"One of Marian Anderson's many triumphs was singing at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939.  Despite singing for President Roosevelt at the White House, Anderson was denied the right to perform at Constitution Hall.  With a push from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, history was made."},
{"No":7,"Name":"Joe Louis","Title":"Boxer","Year":1982,"Type":"Gold Medallion","Description":"Known as the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis was reigning heavy weight champion from 1937 - 1949.  During a time when African-Americans still had to use separate bathrooms, Joe Louis became a national hero after he knocked out German boxer, Max Schmeling in the first round.  "},
{"No":8,"Name":"Louis Armstrong","Title":"Musician","Year":1982,"Type":"Gold Medallion","Description":"A jazz legend, Louis Armstrong made the trumpet cool.  A native of New Orleans, some consider him the first African-American artist to cross over into mainstream.  His hits include What a Wonderful World, When the Saints Go Marching In and Hello Dolly which won him a Grammy.  Satchmo, as he was called, is in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Grammy Hall of Fame. "},
{"No":9,"Name":"Roy Wilkins","Title":"Civil Rights Activist","Year":1984,"Type":"Bronze  Medal","Description":"Highly revered as a civil rights activist, Roy Wilkins was a leader within the National Association of Color People.  During his time with the NAACP, he fought for Brown vs. Board of Education, the Civil Rights act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.  He believed in peaceful protest as a means to gain civil rights and was honored with a coin for his lifelong commitment to fighting for peace, justice and equality.  "},
{"No":10,"Name":"Jesse Owens","Title":"Track and Field athlete","Year":1988,"Type":"Bronze Medal","Description":"A 4 time Olympic gold medalist in Track and Field, Jesse Owens broke a U.S. record.  In 1936, he was the  first in Track and Field to win 4 medals in a single  Olympics.  This victory would not be duplicated until 1986 with Carl Lewis.  Owens success was met with mixed feelings as members of the NAACP were encouraging African-American athletes to boycott the Berlin Summer Olympics.  "},
{"No":11,"Name":"General Colin Powell","Title":"Secretary of State","Year":1991,"Type":"Bronze Medal","Description":"The son of Jamaican immigrants, General Colin Powell rose from the ranks to become a four-star general in the U.S. Army.  A 35-year veteran, he was appointed Secretary of State by George W. Bush in (2000 or 2001).  "},
{"No":12,"Name":"Jackie Robinson","Title":"Baseball Hall of Fame","Year":1997,"Type":"$5 Gold Coin","Description":"Second baseman, Jackie Robinson, was the first African American to play major league baseball.  In 1947, he made history when he walked onto the field as a Brooklyn Dodger.  It's been 70 years since that historic moment, but the LA Dodgers still honor him with Jackie Robinson day.  "},
{"No":13,"Name":"Jackie Robinson","Title":"Baseball Hall of Fame","Year":1997,"Type":"Silver Dollar","Description":"Jackie Robinson Day is a big deal for the Dodgers.  Players for both teams wear Jackie Robinson's number 42.  In honor of the 70th Anniversary of Jackie Robinson joining the MLB a statue of Jackie was erected at Dodger Stadium.  "},
{"No":14,"Name":"Bessie Coleman","Title":"Pilot","Year":1998,"Type":"Brass Concept Coin","Description":"An American Aviator, Bessie Coleman has the distinct honor of many firsts.  She was the first African American woman and the first Native American woman to hold a pilot's license.  She was also the first African American woman to get an international pilot's license.  And she was no ordinary pilot; Coleman captured crowds with her figure 8 loops."},
{"No":15,"Name":"Bessie Coleman","Title":"Pilot","Year":1998,"Type":"Silver Concept Coin","Description":"The Bessie Coleman commemorative coins were just concept pieces.  Not all proposed coins make it through the legislation process and get approved.  Both the silver and brass Bessie Coleman coins were presented but failed to get congressional approval.  "},
{"No":16,"Name":"Black Revolutionary War Patriots","Title":"Historical Moment","Year":1998,"Type":"Silver Dollar","Description":"Crispus Attucks' face dons this coin.  He was 1 of 5000 African-Americans who fought against the British in the American Revolutionary War.  Believed to be the first American killed in the Boston Massacre, Attucks' represents the African-Americans who took up arms to fight for a chance at freedom.  "},
{"No":17,"Name":"Nelson Mandela","Title":"Leader","Year":1998,"Type":"Bronze Medal","Description":"After spending 27 years in prison, Mandela went on to become President of South Africa and bring an end to apartheid.   The first black president of the country, he was not only a revolutionary, but a humanitarian known to promote peace and unity for all.  "},
{"No":18,"Name":"Rosa Parks","Title":"Civil Rights Activist","Year":1999,"Type":"Bronze Medal","Description":"Considered the Mother of the Freedom Movement, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man.  This wasn't the first time Parks had defied the bus laws, but this time the climate was ripe for change.  Her one act was the genesis for a 13 month bus boycott in Montgomery which was lead by Martin Luther King Jr. "},
{"No":19,"Name":"Little Rock Nine","Title":"Historic Moment","Year":1999,"Type":"Bronze Medal","Description":"In 1954, Brown v Board of Education called school segregation unconstitutional.  Three years later no black student in Arkansas dared attend an all white school until the Little Rock Nine enrolled at Little Rock Central High School in 1957.  Despite the law, Arkansas governor sent the National Guard Central High to prevent the 9 students from attending.  He claimed it was to protect them from the angry mob.  President Eisenhower eventually intervened."},
{"No":20,"Name":"New Jersey State","Title":"Historic Moment","Year":1999,"Type":"Quarter","Description":"Considered the first circulated coin to have an African American on it, the New Jersey quarter depicts George Washington crossing the Delaware.  Rowing the boat with Washington and his men was a slave.  The slave represented the many Blacks who fought in the war. "},
{"No":21,"Name":"Missouri State","Title":"Historic Moment","Year":2003,"Type":"Quarter","Description":"Also part of the quarter series, the Missouri coin was the second circulated coin to depict a black person.  Again this person was a slave.  The Missouri quarter shows Lois and Clark on an expedition accompanied by their slave, York.  "},
{"No":22,"Name":"Dr. Dorothy Height","Title":"Activist","Year":2004,"Type":"Bronze Medal","Description":"In her 98 years alive, Dorothy Height went from seeing women and blacks having minimal rights to forging the way for the freedoms we now enjoy. In the 60s, She fought along side Dr. King and the Big Six during civil rights, but was still look upon as just a woman.  In the 70s, she helped form the National Women's Political Caucus with Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm and Betty Friedan.  "},
{"No":23,"Name":"Brown v. Board of Education","Title":"Historical Moment","Year":2004,"Type":"Bronze Medal","Description":"In 1954, it was declared unconstitutional to have separate schools for black and white students.  The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that school segregation violated the 14th Amendment, which provides equal protection under the law.  Brown was the parent of a child in Topeka; Kansas who was denied access to a white public school and chose to file a class action suit."},
{"No":24,"Name":"Jackie Robinson","Title":"Baseball Hall of Fame","Year":2005,"Type":"Bronze Medal","Description":"For each congressional medal received, there is a commemorative coin that is approved and minted. President Bush presented Jackie Robinson's widow with this award based on his achievements in baseball and his positive influence on the advancement of Civil Rights.  "},
{"No":25,"Name":"Tuskegee Airmen","Title":"Historic Moment","Year":2007,"Type":"Bronze Medal","Description":"An all black group of aviators who served in World War II, they were the Army's first African-American military aviators.  Prior to the 40s, blacks were rejected as military pilots.   The Tuskegee airmen were all educated at Tuskegee Institute and the term includes not only pilots and bombardiers, but also the supporting staff."},
{"No":26,"Name":"Little Rock Central High Desegregation","Title":"Historic Moment","Year":2007,"Type":"Silver Dollar","Description":"Considered a defining moment in Civil Rights History, the Little Rock Nine commemorative coin depicts the legs of the 9 students being escorted by a solider.  The coin was released for the 50th Anniversary of school desegregation with proceeds going to fund Little Rock Central High School visitors center.  "},
{"No":27,"Name":"Senator Edward William Brooke III","Title":"Politician","Year":2008,"Type":"Bronze Medal","Description":"In 1962, he became the first African-American to become a state attorney general in any state.  A Massachusetts Republican, in 1966, Brooke went on to beat former MA governor Peabody for his first of two terms in the Senate.  He was first African-American to serve in the U.S. Senate."},
{"No":28,"Name":"Duke Ellington","Title":"Jazz Musician","Year":2009,"Type":"DC Quarter","Description":"Jazz legend Duke Ellington is the first African-American to be featured on a circulated coin alone.  Both the Missouri and New Jersey coins feature slaves with their iconic masters.  Duke Ellington is featured alone with his piano on the back of the District of Columbia quarter.  "},
{"No":29,"Name":"Montford Point Marines","Title":"Historic Moment","Year":2011,"Type":"Bronze Medal","Description":"When President Roosevelt passed an executive order that read banning discriminatory employment practices by Federal agencies and all unions and companies engaged in war-related work, it opened the door for the first African-Americans to join the U.S. Marines.  Currently on Camp Johnson there's a museum to the Montford Point Marines equipped with much of the artillery used in battle.   "},
{"No":30,"Name":"Girl Scouts ","Title":"Historic Moment","Year":2013,"Type":"Silver Dollar","Description":"Celebrating 100 years of the Girl Scout organization, the front of the commemorative coin represents diversity in age and race.  The 3 ladies represent Courage, Confidence, Character the core tenets of the organization. "},
{"No":31,"Name":"16th Street Baptist Church Bombing","Title":"Historic Moment","Year":2013,"Type":"Bronze Medal","Description":"16th Street Baptist Church had long been a meeting place for local civil rights activist and the meeting place for local marches.  On September 15, 1963 it became the catalyst for The Movement that Changed the World.  The church was bombed before Sunday school killing 4 little black girls.  This bronze commemorative coin depicts the silhouettes of the 4 girls on the front and 16th Street Baptist church on the back."},
{"No":32,"Name":"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr/Coretta Scott King","Title":"Civil Rights Activists","Year":2013,"Type":"Bronze Medal","Description":"Considered the first family of the Civil Rights Movement, this bronze coin is inscribed with the words For their service to humanity and has the images of Dr. King and Coretta Scott King on the front.  "},
{"No":33,"Name":"Civil Rights Act of 1964","Title":"Historic Moment","Year":2014,"Type":"Silver Dollar","Description":"The release of this coin corresponds with the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which banned job discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.  First initiated by President Kennedy the Civil Rights Act also outlawed segregation.  The debate to pass this legislation is considered one of the longest in the history of Congress.  Lyndon B. Johnson urged Congress to pass it as a final tribute to the recently assassinated JFK. "},
{"No":34,"Name":"Selma to Montgomery March","Title":"Historic Moment","Year":2015,"Type":"Bronze Medal","Description":"The 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery was one of 3 marches that lead to voting rights for African Americans.  This coin depicts protestors walking arm in arm as they try to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge.  Lead by Dr. King, this was a peaceful march, but the protestors were met by armed sheriffs and deputized citizens with a scene so violent it was dubbed Bloody Sunday.   "},
{"No":35,"Name":"Frederick Douglass National Historic Site","Title":"Abolitionist","Year":2017,"Type":"Quarter","Description":"He escaped slavery at age 20 and his writings became a narrative for the slaves of the time.  Fredrick Douglass fought against slavery and Jim Crow laws and is considered one of the most important voices of his time.  The Fredrick Douglass quarter features him on the back of the quarter writing outside of his D.C home.  "},
{"No":36,"Name":"President Barack Obama","Title":"President ","Year":2017,"Type":"Presidential Bronze Medal","Description":"The Mint issues each U.S. President a coin at the end of his or her presidency for each term.  There were so many fake Barack Obama coins manufactured during his 8 years in office, the U.S. Mint issued an advisory to consumers that these coins were not produced by the mint, not legal currency, not of any long term value and the manufacturers were in essence defacing money.  The official Obama coins are available on the U.S Mint's website starting at $6.95.  "}]