The US Treasury Department announced the move on Wednesday.
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Things would be so different if many more of us would have a tiny fraction of Harriet Tubman’s courage. A statue of Jackson on horseback is located outside the White House.
Tubman’s picture will be replacing Andrew Jackson’s on the $20 bill several years from now.
I’ve heard it said, ‘today we have no heroes,’ but I beg to differ.
Just two short years later, and the U.S. Treasury announced the inclusion of Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, who was also one of the women on Sofia’s list, although she mistakenly wrote her name as “Harriet tudman”.
Introduced alongside a slew of changes to the $5 and $10 notes as well, the redesign gives the Treasury “a chance to open the aperture to reflect more of America’s history”, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said.
“A woman could grow up as a slave, remained illiterate, and through her heroism and vision and determination, helped to change the course of this country”, Lew said.
“Andrew Jackson…was a tremendous president”, Carson went on.
For her efforts to free slaves, Tubman was given the nickname Moses by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.
But what about Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury who also founded the city of Paterson, who, as good fortune for the Founding Father would have it, is being sparred from getting knocked off of the $10 bill?
Harriet Tubman is seen in a photo that is believed to have been taken between 1860 and 1875. Her story is one that rewards her visage being placed on USA currency, and she is more deserving than some who already have the honor.
Trump, whom Christie endorsed after dropping his own bid for the Republican nomination, said Friday that Tubman was “fantastic” but called the move, “pure political correctness”.
“Jackson was the first common man to be elected president”.
According to the Federal Reserve, the $20 bill is the third most widely circulated paper bill and accounts for 23 percent of all bills in circulation. “So I’m very happy, but I certainly wish that in the future that some consideration be given to removing Jackson from the back of the $20 bill”.
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President Abraham Lincoln is staying on the $5 bill, but the reverse, which now has the Lincoln Memorial in D.C., will feature opera singer Marian Anderson, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr.
