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.
Worse that that!! Traitorcongress, along with the Traitorobama regime, has given aid and comfort to the enemy. They are evil down to their hell-allegiant souls.
I think Jackson was involved in the early negotiations, but it was left to his successor, van Buren ( who was also Jackson’s VP), to complete the deal.
GAG ME
When the new history books come out you can bet the impression that America is an African Nation will be strong.
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“I’m surprised Obama isn’t going to be on a bill. Or, do you have to be dead to qualify?”
I have it on good authority that Hussein Obama will be going on the new $3 bill.
With Obonzo in the White Hut, I thought for sure Beyoncé and Snoop Dawg would show up on one of them.
Counterfeit Bitcoin .....:o)
These lowlife bastards at the Treasury Department need to check their government employee privilege.
guaranteed 100% “ni88er” will be scribbled on the new bills and holy hell will break out. The SJW goons will scribble that every 4 months to make sure America gets to be told how racist and terrible it is on and on and on...
I love it, because she was a Republican.
Nauseating.
Trump needs to nip this one in the bud.
Barry’s little ‘eff you’ to rub in the face of nasty white America
Last time I saw a black woman smile like that,her face was on a bottle of pancake syrup.
All this money ain’t going to be worth shit once President Rodham-Clinton takes office. The nation will collapse completely....if 0bama don’t doesn’t beat her to it!
The current issues have had an extraordinarily long run with little or no changes.
Are these jokes?
There was a scene in the shortlived show “Terra Nova” where the 100,000 bills had Obama’s picture.
Sharpee sales will skyrocket.
Refresh my memory .... the great things that Eleanor Roosevelt accomplished were: . Just about the same as Benghazi Clinton’s accomplishments!
This is not the final slap. He’s got till January. Hang on it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
Such pandering. People are going to have a field day with people making fake money and demanding others accept it.
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