Tubman, who died in 1913 at the age of 91, will be the first woman on the face of USA paper currency in 100 years.
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The portrait of Harriet Tubman will be on the front of the $20 bill, replacing President Andrew Jackson, the U.S. Treasury Department announced.
When she got a call Wednesday notifying her that the Treasury Department had decided her hero would appear on the US currency, her voice and Tubman’s voice spoke as one. He was also an unrepentant slave owner whose forced deportation of Native Americans cost many hundreds of lives along “the Trail of Tears”. McCurdy said, when telling CBC Radio’s Afternoon Drive about her reaction to the news about Tubman.
“I think Harriet Tubman is fantastic, but I would love to leave Andrew Jackson or see if we can maybe come up with another denomination”, Trump added. In addition to the $20 bill makeover which will place Ms. Tubman on the front and move Jackson to the back, Mr. Lew announced that both the $10 note and $5 note will be revamped on the back to honor the civil-rights movement and suffrage activists.
This is part of the most extensive change to the country’s currency since 1929 and brings about the welcome appearance of several more women and people of color on the backs of the$5, $10 and $20 bills. It is a reminder that freedom is bigger than any single person, bigger even than national heroes like Washington, Jefferson and Jackson, who fought to gain and preserve freedom while denying it to others. Harriet Tubman just pushed Andrew Jackson to the back of the buck. Born a slave, Tubman worked as a house servant in her early years and later, in the fields.
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“She represents the best of America and believed in the promise of America”, said Karen Hill, president and chief executive officer of the Harriet Tubman Home Inc., an Auburn museum.
This is the first time the face of an African-American will be printed on United States paper currency. Tubman’s history of freeing slaves is in direct contrast with the economic system in which America was built.
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“As you know they were going to do the $10 bill, and then all of a sudden the Broadway play, ‘Hamilton, ‘ sort of saved that one”, Trump said. “They eventually lost all trace off him once he crossed the Ohio River, and the owners who were chasing him said, ‘he must have gone off an underground road'”.
