Posted on 05/12/2015 4:37:55 PM PDT by PROCON
The group Women on 20s says 600,000 voters chose the Maryland-born escaped slave and Underground Railroad conductor to appear on a $20
Tubman beat out Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt and Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, in the final round of voting
Now the group intends to petition President Obama to encourage the treasury to make the first such change since 1929
A group campaigning to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with a woman has announced who they want that woman to be: Harriet Tubman.
Starting in March, the non-profit Women on 20s held two rounds of voting in which the conductor of the Underground Railroad claimed victory over 99 other trailblazing women including Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt and Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation.
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George Washington on the $1 note
Thomas Jefferson on the $2 note
Abraham Lincoln on the $5 note
Alexander Hamilton on the $10 note
Andrew Jackson on the $20 note
Ulysses Grant on the $50 note
Benjamin Franklin on the $100 note.
John Marshall on the $500 note
Alexander Hamilton or Grover Cleveland on the $1,000 note
James Madison on the $5,000 note
Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury (1861-1864) on the $10,000
Woodrow Wilson on the $100,000 note
The $100,000 Gold Certificate was used only for official transactions between Federal Reserve Banks and was not circulated among the general public. This note cannot be legally held by currency note collectors.
United States currency denominations above $100 are not available from the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Reserve System, or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. On July 14, 1969, the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve System announced that currency notes in denominations of $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 would be discontinued immediately due to lack of use. Although they were issued until 1969, they were last printed in 1945.
http://moneyfactory.gov/uscurrency/smalldenominations.html http://moneyfactory.gov/uscurrency/largedenominations.html
Lady Liberty, Eagles.. I could live with that. The Capitol Building, Independence Hall or the Liberty Bell wouldn’t be bad either.
um.. no.
No, not at all. I think both have been used in the past.
Interesting facts on paper currency, thanks!
We should really try to get Karl Marx on the $20 bill. That would tear them up.
In grade school (in the racist 1950’s) we were taught that Harriet Tubman was known to her followers as Moses, led hundreds of escaped slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad, and once while leading a column through a driving rain at night, when one exhausted ex-slave said “Miss Tubman, I just cain’t go on any longer!” she placed a revolver to the man’s head & grimly declared, “You go on or die.”
I’ve always been convinced they put him on out of spite in the first place!
We should replace Jackson with an Indian. We have a long history of Indians on US money:
Really surprised they didn’t go for Margaret Sanger.
Exactly, you can mark the beginning of the downhill slide with the ending of representations of liberty on coinage in favor of politicians and historical figures.
I don’t mind them on specific legal tender commemoratives, but we should go back to liberty on money.
Though, now that I think of it, it may actually be that liberty is only depicted on hard money...
Those are good choices. I'd also suggest some science, or space themed images such as the space shuttle or perhaps some Apollo moon landing images. Maybe Neil Armstrong, or Thomas Edison, or Alexander Graham Bell, Jonas Salk (creator of the polio vaccine). How about the Wright Brothers? How about Douglas MacArthur?
That's what I'm talkin about!
Putting her on the $20 bill would be dead wrong!
However, I have no objection to their placing Ms. Tubman’s or the President’s image on food stamps!
NO!
For a moment I thought that was BENITO JUAREZ!
If they want a women who really made a difference for women they ought to put Jeannette Rankin on it.
It’s sort of critical at this point not to look to hard into the Tubman legacy, and Academia agrees (if you look at recent publications and references to “The Underground Railroad” that it’s time to leave well enough alone before we know too much.
No women Presidents yet—So why put one on a bill? If you don’t like Jackson (the man who founded the Democrat Party) why not Truman? Why not Wilson? Why not Jerry Ford? Why not a Good Whig like John Tylor? Or our first President of the Continental Congress—John Hancock? Not a woman because its PC— But a woman who had a place in politics? Elenor Roosevelt comes to mind.
Boycott any $20 with a woman.
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