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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Put Obama on the 3 dollar bill.
Andy probably gave the British the worst whipping they ever had not counting massacres where they were vastly outnumbered.
Nope. No Thanky.
I believe his popularity has to do with the battle of New Orleans when he kicked British ass. Unfortunately for the Brits, the war was already over when the battle took place, and so many men might not have had to die in vain if communications had been quicker.
Great idea!!
Really ? ... I find that hard to believe...
Save her for the quarter.
Guess they couldn't get over slavery and Indian removal. Sean Wilentz, though, is a big fan, as was Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Back in the 40s, Schlesinger wrote a large, prize-winning book on Jackson without mentioning (or mentioning only very slightly in passing) the Indians and what happened to them.
Wilentz, though, is still around and loving Andy Jackson -- something to do with Jackson being the founder of the Democratic Party and the Whigs being the Bushes of their day.
That's definitely a minority view among Democrats and those further left, though.
It can be called "Fringe Money"
Obscure T.V. reference
If women are going to insist on a female on the 20 dollar bill, could we please make it Kate Upton?
Jackson really knew how to hate. He hated his opponents who criticized his wife, he hated the Bank of the U.S., he hated the British and with good reason.
I would have said he hated Indians but he adopted an Indian baby and raised him as his own.
What say we put a picture of the Reverend Al Sharpton on the $20? - OBAMA on the $5 - Jesse on the $1 - and Louie Farrakhan on the $50? Let’s do ‘em all !!!
All our paper money features presidents or other statesmen (nothing to do with gender, in our language that’s the word for “government official”).
Neither Edison, Ford, Carnegie, Flagler, Vanderbilt, Sears, Gates, or any other prominent person who was not a president or statesmen is on our paper money.
These people will use gender as divisively as possible.
Don’t replace Old Hickory!
Why waste it on these people. The woman who did the most for liberalism and should be canonized on money is none other than Margaret Sanger.
It has been pointed out to me that this business of putting people on money was not the normal practice for the first half of this nation's existence. Old money had Indians, Buffaloes, Lady Liberty, Eagles, etc. Symbols of America, that weren't specific people.
If we do anything, I'd like to see us go back to that, and leave off the hero worship.
Sarah Palin
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