Treasury Secretary Expected to Announce the Woman Who Will Replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 Bill

Alexander Hamilton Keeps His Spot on the Ten Spot

Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew is expected to announce on Wednesday, likely pleasing many. Feminists have been advocating for a woman to replace the seventh President of the United States on the $20 bill, and were disappointed last year when he suggested replacing the $10 bill’s Alexander Hamilton with a woman. Fans of the Broadway blowout “Hamilton” will be pleased as well.

“There will also be changes to the $5 bill to depict civil rights era leaders,” Politico, which broke the news, reports.

Tubman was born a slave, and later rescued hundreds who were also slaves, via the Underground Railroad. She became a civil rights leader, a nurse during the Civil War, and a suffragist fighting for the right to vote. She was also a Union spy. 

Her biography is truly amazing.

Tubman will not be the first woman on U.S. paper currency, but she will be the first in over a century. 

But the New York Times minutes ago published a story claiming, “images of women are expected to grace the back of the new [$10] bill, with a woman taking the top spot on a redesigned $20 further into the future,” after 2020.

The Times does not name Tubman.

Stay tuned!

 

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