The long neglected recognition on paper currency of the role of women in USA history was rectified with a vengeance by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on April 20 when he announced that future $5, $10 and $20 notes will all prominently feature women in their design.
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The women’s rights advocate also served as a Union Army spy during the Civil War.
“The college, which is named for the first USA secretary of the Treasury who also served as its first trustee, also supports Secretary Lew’s intent to add illustrious women in US history on the $10 bill and to honor Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill”, said the message.
She was a fighter, and impatient for the freedom of her people and the suffrage of her sex; she repeatedly put her life on the line for what she believed in.
Pauline Johnson, meanwhile, says she’s not too anxious about what is on the back of the new bill.
All words used to describe Harriet Tubman.
For Tennesseans in Congress, however, there’s nothing to debate: Jackson belongs on the $20 bill. Too bad President Jackson didn’t have a smash-hit of a now Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play to give him more currency, pun intended.
Wednesday’s announcement helped mark a decades-long decline in the reputation of Jackson, once a pillar of the modern Democratic Party but now often defined by his ownership of slaves and the “Trail of Tears” saga that forcibly removed American Indians from their land.
While no depictions of African-Americans have appeared on US currency, the signatures of five African-Americans have been on it.
Almost a century later, GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump wants to keep it that way.
“I think it’s pure political correctness, ” Trump said of the move on NBC’s “Today” on Thursday.
At the bottom of the letter, Sofia suggested a dozen names that could fit the bill, including Tubman’s. I would love to leave Andrew Jackson and see if we can maybe come up with another denomination. “But within his historical period, that was within the mainstream thinking”.
“Harriet Tubman is what’s good about America”, he said. “Andrew Jackson had a great history”.
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In September, in conjunction with a reception in Washington, D.C., to welcome young Hamilton alumni to the nation’s capital, college mascot “Alex” took some time to protest the possible removal or reduction of the image of Hamilton by the Department of the Treasury on the $10 note. Contributors include Associated Press writers Travis Loller in Nashville, Tennessee; and Felicia Fonseca in Flagstaff, Arizona.
