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.
Why not just put Obama on every bill?
If you recall, when the bastard was running in 2008, he made numerous mentions of the fact that if elected, he would fundamentally transform the United States of America. Well, a majority of the voters approved him and he did their bidding. He also stated that the Constitution of the United States of America was a flawed document and alluded to rectifying it. This he also accomplished to the satisfaction of the majority of voters. For this, in 2012, he was rewarded with 4 more years to continue his work by the same majority. I would opine that in which he was elected to do, he was extremely successful.
We are we doing this kind of money-wasting crap? To make someone feel good? Stop spending money on things we don’t need!
It’s a scheme to get people to stop using paper money. I hear they are going to put Richard Simmons on the fifty.
And it’s more than 12% of the population getting 100% representation.
I'm guessing "Diversity is our strength!"
I posted before I got to y’all’s comments, GMTA
Watch for the lawsuit to get Harvey Milk on a greenback.
I predict a unending series of currency defacements
well, you’re right.
the only comfort I will have is that the liberals, feminists, minorities and lgbt groups will be BEGGING for whitey’s help when hell breaks loose and we can tell them to go ##### themselves.
Damn them all to hell.
You omitted the Jewish vote, but how does those who comprise a small minority of the population Nationwide, put someone in the Oval Office? In spite of what the media likes to say and wishes that had happened, it was the selfhating Whites that put the son of a female dog in the White House. Two times.
What were all those characters elected to again?
I wish more people would quit acting like they never heard this or that it doesn’t matter. The man was a woman beater.
I’m with you on that! Preach on!
Imagine, he single handedly freed 100s of millions of people and martin loser queen is gonna be on a bill instead of him.
will he be beating the @#$@#$ out of a hooker on it?
And and increase in the stock price of the company making Sharpies.
And a plagiarist.
That thought occurred to me also, because it’s going to annoy the sh*t out of me to look at most of these every time I have to use a bill. My husband and I at first thought it was only going to be the $20, bad enough because we love Jackson. But it looks like it’s going to be all the most used ones, it won’t do any good to change them for other bills, so we’ll be stuck looking at this cast of not-presidents unless we don’t use cash, and that’s not very comforting either.
This is the type nonsense you get with a government that “educates” its citizens.
The very thought of government education is 1984 + Animal Farm + the Quran on steroids.
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