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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat Happened to the Plan to Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill?......trump
Two years ago this week, the Treasury secretary announced civil rights and womens icons would be on Americas money. Where are they?
When a Harriet Tubman scholar found out in 2016 that the abolitionist she studied for decades was going to be the new face of the $20 bill, she cried.
Here you have an African American woman, formerly enslaved who fought and struggled her whole life for freedom and equality. Kate Larson said.
But Larson and others eager to withdraw Tubmans from the bank may have to wait longer than expected. Two years ago this week, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced redesigns for the $20, $10, and $5 bills that would honor civil rights and womens rights icons: Tubman, Alice Paul, and Marian Anderson. Lew said the new note designs would debut by 2020, 100 years after women gained the right to vote.
But now the Trump administration is putting the plan on the backburner, according to the Treasury department.
Here you have an African American woman, formerly enslaved who fought and struggled her whole life for freedom and equality. Kate Larson said.
But Larson and others eager to withdraw Tubmans from the bank may have to wait longer than expected. Two years ago this week, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced redesigns for the $20, $10, and $5 bills that would honor civil rights and womens rights icons: Tubman, Alice Paul, and Marian Anderson. Lew said the new note designs would debut by 2020, 100 years after women gained the right to vote.
But now the Trump administration is putting the plan on the backburner, according to the Treasury department.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-happened-to-the-plan-to-put-harriet-tubman-on-the-dollar20-bill?ref=home
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What Happened to the Plan to Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill?......trump (Original Post)
spanone
Apr 2018
OP
3catwoman3
(24,006 posts)1. Mnuchin probably wants...
...his own ugly face on it.
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)2. stormy's face on the 130k bill
mia
(8,361 posts)3. Trump "recommended that Tubmans portrait should go on the barely circulated $2 bill instead."
"President Trump, a fan of Andrew Jackson, the current face of the $20, has not spoken on the redesign since his election, but in 2016 he said the decision was pure political correctness and recommended that Tubmans portrait should go on the barely circulated $2 bill instead."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-happened-to-the-plan-to-put-harriet-tubman-on-the-dollar20-bill?ref=home
irisblue
(32,980 posts)4. So with a sharpie, I've been writing, 'Harriet Tubman should be here'
Might look into a stamp.
Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)5. K&R! Excellent question!
Cha
(297,290 posts)6. Thank you for this, spanone.. here's
hoping some day.