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.
Just use $50’s......Grant.................
I really think they should have featured OJ and omprah, and maybe a rapper or two...
And there is NO ONE from the gay rights agenda included, so that will be the next big protest.
Not trying to offend anyone, but this is more communism from the us govt. Black people make up 12% of the population.
one final slap
more stains on the country
only dead presidents should be on the money
Because they are on Obama's team, maybe?
I’d rather have General Patton on the $5 than MLK.
Oh....sure...YOU RICH REPUBLICAN ELITIST! </sarc>
Coming soon -— the 500 peso Amero with Pancho Villa and Jeb! Bush.
I have a 25 guilder note I brought back from a trip to the Netherlands in the 1980s, which features a portrait of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, who is sort of their national composer. Our currency could feature portraits of Mark Twain, Chuck Berry, the works of Normal Rockwell, etc.
I would also like to be on the back of the $5 bill. I have been to the Lincoln Memorial, have an electrical engineering degree, worked for an aerospace company for 32 years, and am a husband, father, and grandfather. An opera singer is only an entertainer. Next they will put George Clooney and Susan Sarandon on the $5 bill.
The looneys are definitely running this country.
Nobody is going to put Reagan on any bill, $1 or otherwise.
Do you know the gets to make the decisions who to put on our money? Winners. That's who. And right now liberals are winning.
Reagan was a conservative and conservatives are not winning. Conservatives are losing.
And, of course, the new 3 dollar bill will depict Baraq Obama on the front and Reggie Love on the back . Obviously we’ll only be able to see the back of Reggie’s head.
Looks like someone who is finally proud of her country!
The $50 dollar bill will become the new $20 bill!..................
You’ll see Reagan on the Polish Zloty before you’d see him on the US Dollar.
I don’t care if they put Bugs Bunny on the money as long as I can still spend it.
“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.”
Perhaps we can exchange: ‘first lady Eleanor Roosevelt’ for ‘first lady (and famous Star Wars character Chewbacca) Michelle Obama?’
Just a thought...
Actually, it should be a newly-implemented $500,000,000 bill for Mrs. Obama, because that is probably more in line with how much she has cost us in vacations and servants.
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