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Harriet Tubman To Replace Andrew Jackson On $20 Bill
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Reuters wrote Anti-slavery crusader Harriet Tubman will become the first African-American on the face of U.S. paper currency, and the first woman in more than a century, when she replaces former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

The U.S. Treasury Department said on Wednesday that Tubman, who was born into slavery in the early 1820s and went on to help hundreds of slaves escape, would take the center spot on the bill, while Jackson, a slave owner, would move to the back.

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 new $10 bill will add images of five female leaders of the women's suffrage movement, including Sojourner Truth and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, to the back, while keeping founding father Alexander Hamilton on the front.

The reverse of a new $5 note will show former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., officials said. Former President Abraham Lincoln will remain on the front.

Lew said the designs should be unveiled by 2020 and go into circulation "as quickly as possible," although he declined to say when. He said the $10 bill was scheduled to go out first, citing security needs.


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Prepare for Trumps head to implode.


I guess that would make him somewhat better looking at least.


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Make the $20 bill great again!
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I'm not a fan of this. I don't even understand why they would put Harriet Tubman on a bill.
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Daaamn, $20 Billion yes please wouldn't know what to do with $20 Billion.
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This is awesome and well deserved. I just hope nothing ends up hindering this.
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dah wrote Daaamn, $20 Billion yes please wouldn't know what to do with $20 Billion.
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That's why Andrew Jackson is still going to be on the note, but he was a slave owner.
It would be a little bit strange if they put the slave owning white guy on the front and the slave-liberating black lady on the back.

Of course you put the person with the moral high ground on the front.
Personally I don't think Andrew Jackson should be on any currency at all.
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I seen this the other day.

Glad to see they change to be honest.

Can't wait to get my first bill with her on it.

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What's next? Bruce Jenner on a $3 bill? I don't particularly see this being necessary. Granted Andrew Jackson owned slaves, but so did the majority of our presidents before him. Including Washington.
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I don't see why anyone would give a shit unless they're an unapologetic white nationalist.
Money is money. It's worth the same regardless of who's on it. It will be spent the same regardless of who's on it.
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