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[Art_from_Ark]

"Communists were using racism against America." In 1951, while Truman was still President, the United States issued this commemorative coin.



The original design called for the phrase "United Against the Spread of Communism" to be inscribed on the reverse (tails side), but the State Department intervened to get it rejected.

Although the allotted number of coins was not sold by the original deadline, Congress passed an extending act in September 1951 that contained a clause specifying that the profits of the Washington-Carver half dollar were to be used "to oppose the spread of Communism among Negroes in the interest of the National defense."

http://www.usrarecoininvestments.com/collecting/was-car-halfdollar.htm