{"id":15757,"date":"2016-04-21T09:41:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T13:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohsodj.com\/?p=15757"},"modified":"2016-04-21T09:41:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T13:41:03","slug":"harriet-tubman-is-the-next-new-face-of-the-20-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=15757","title":{"rendered":"Harriet Tubman is the Next New Face of the $20 Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"harriett_ohsodj\"<\/a>Harriet Tubman will be joining the $20 bill. HArriet was a black woman who escaped slavery to become a conductor on the Underground Railroad, risking her life to lead slaves to freedom. <\/p>\n

She will be replacing President Andrew Jackson, the son of Scots-Irish immigrants and owner of slaves, was elected president as a war hero and became known for policies that led to the deaths of countless Native Americans.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said Tubman would replace Jackson on the front of the $20 bill, becoming the first woman in more than a century and first African American to grace the front of a paper note. Jackson will be featured on the back of the bill alongside an image of the White House.<\/p>\n

In another twist, Alexander Hamilton got a reprieve. Initially targeted for replacement by a woman on the $10 bill, Hamilton’s reputation was burnished by an unlikely smash Broadway play and his case pressed by outraged historians pointing to his seminal role in creating the nation’s first central bank.<\/p>\n

Treasury’s announcement followed almost a year of heated public debate.<\/p>\n

With Hamilton’s position secure, and with the Obama administration under pressure to add diversity to the currency, Lew’s compromise is to replace a picture of the Treasury building on the back of the $10 with leaders of the suffrage movement \u2014 Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul and Lucretia Mott.
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\nMy two-cents: So why couldn’t Harriet get her own bill … #IJS<\/em><\/p>\n

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