Posted on 04/20/2016 2:18:50 PM PDT by markomalley
Abraham Lincoln will not be the only person depicted on the $5 bill much longer.
The Treasury Department announced Wednesday that it will overhaul the design of the $5 note, a move overshadowed by its decision to revamp the back of the $10 bill to include women and to feature Harriet Tubman on the front of the $20.
Civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., famed opera singer Marian Anderson and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt will be depicted on the back of the updated $5 bill.
All three will be portrayed in historical moments in front of the Lincoln Memorial, which is currently pictured on the back of the bill. King will be shown delivering his 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech. Anderson will be shown performing in 1939, when concert halls were still segregated and she was banned from singing in Constitution Hall, supported by Roosevelt.
In redesigning the $5 bill, a previously unannounced step, the Treasury will disrupt Lincoln's long-running tenure on both the front of the bill, in a portrait, and on the back, captured as a statue within the Lincoln Memorial. The basic layout of the note hadn't changed since 1929.
When Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced in June that a woman would be featured on the $10 bill, he explained that the $10 was chosen because it was next in line to be replaced. Years of planning go into updating currency, largely because of the anti-counterfeiting measures that must be implemented.
Lew, however, received sustained criticism from fans of Alexander Hamilton, who wanted his image to remain on the bill, and from some of the groups who had originally advocated portraying a woman on paper currency, who didn't want to have the woman to have to share space with Hamilton.
The plans announced Wednesday reflected the Treasury's efforts to address critics' concerns.
Not surprised by this change.
why doesn’t congress stop this bull shi-?
This #####ing ###### has destroyed the country.
no matter who’ president now, the kids will thing these were the real heroes
No, they’re a scourge and have been for decades.
I can’t type CLOSE to what I want to type.
Put Reagan on the $1 then.
The U.N./NWO/0blama administration feared protest over the new $20 so they’re changing three bills. Difficult to protest three bills by refusing to use them other than defacing the cr*p out of them with markers.
Uh-oh, some racial justice warrior will compare this to being on the "back of the bus."
Riots to follow.
Congress is irrelevant AND THEY KNOW IT. Representative gubmint is an illusion now.
Put Obama on the three dollar bill!!!
Looks like I am going to have to get a bigger wallet to handle all those $1 bills.
An opera singer? Seriously??
All subject to change.
Congress? Stop something? Stop anything?
PPPPPPPPHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAaaaa...
Because they are Nwo clowns.
It’s only paper.................
I’m surprised Obama isn’t going to be on a bill. Or, do you have to be dead to qualify?
And let's not forget Trayvon ... you know he was "turnin' hid life arount"!
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