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.
Any excuse to change our flag.. You know they're plotting it.
He’s already on the food stamps. But yeah, that’s fitting.
Reggie Love on the back of Oblama? Sounds about right.
Can she go on the $1.00 bill and users say they identify her as a $100 bill?
The majority got their wish. Why are they crying. They are not crying. they are not crying, they are happy as the sheep they are being led to slaughter.
It makes me sick.
Agree. That’s next...with a rainbow on the back.
maybe Rosie or Anderson Cooper on the front?
Wouldn’t he be shown on a forty?
Gee, I wonder what they’re going to replace the motto “In God We Trust” with.
Well for one reason or another, Congress approves of what is going on.
And replace Lincoln. I hope not!
I would have been fine with Jackie Robinson or Willie Mays. Don't know if they ever sang opera, though.
Sorry, only liberals deserve to be on our currency. Kids hardly know who any of our Founding fathers are-or were. Common Core is very happy.
Because they want it.
The Progressives also brought us the Federal Reserve. They’re the American big government Nazi party. Probably even worse than the Nazis. Notice how we’ve almost constantly been at war for the past 30 years? They decided early in the 20th century that the easiest way to change a people is to keep them at war.
Will the ADL protest the vicious Jew-hater Eleanor Roosevelt going on the $5? OF course not.
She got a lot of cosmetic work done.
Amen amen amen.
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