Posted on 04/21/2016 4:40:43 AM PDT by simpson96
The $5 bill is set to get an upgrade of sorts. While former President Abraham Lincoln’s image will still grace the front of it, the reverse side of the bill is set to "honor historic events that occurred at the Lincoln Memorial," including moments made memorable from the likes of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., opera singer Marian Anderson and former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, the U.S. Treasury Department announced Wednesday afternoon.
The news comes hours after the Treasury Department unveiled its plans to make significant changes to the appearances of the $20 and $10 bills.
The selection of the three historic figures is noteworthy for a number of reasons, but the fact that they're all either African-American or women, or in Anderson's case, both, is a significant milestone for American currency, which traditionally has only featured white people and has very rarely included a woman. It was not immediately clear when the new $5 will go into circulation.
King, Anderson and Roosevelt are all linked to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., which explains in part why their images were chosen to be featured on the new $5 bill.
Anderson, who is African-American, performed in 1939 at the Lincoln Memorial. Her performance is credited with helping to "advance civil rights" during segregation, the Treasury Department said. Roosevelt helped make that performance happen.
King's "I Have a Dream" speech also took place at the Lincoln Memorial. That address called for an end to U.S. racism in addition to a plea for equal civil and economic rights for African-Americans.
The $20 bill will also get new treatment in the form of featuring renowned runaway slave Harriet Tubman on its front, replacing Andrew Jackson. The new $20 will enter into circulation in 2020. The new $10 bill will keep Alexander Hamilton on the front, but its flip side "will celebrate the history of the women’s suffrage movement," according to the Treasury Department. The back will showcase images of historic American women, including Sojourner Truth, who is African-American, and Susan B. Anthony, whose likeness has already graced the front of a dollar coin.
I will return all Pander-currency to the bank as a deposit to my account. Hope everyone does.
It wasn’t bad enough that Obama destroyed the currency figuratively, he’s going to destroy it literally also.
This may cause:
1. A shift to electronic transactions (no one will want to carry those crack-butt ugly visages around)
2. A worldwide abandonment of the US dollar as standard.
If we are looking for great American black women...how about Josephine Baker? And someday after they are gone...Oprah Winfrey? Condoleezza Rice?
I await the time the declaration signing is removed from the back of the $2bill and replaced with an image of the Islamic Council meeting or the African Union council.
This whole movement is Pure Bull excretia.
Yup! Almost no one knows the $2 bill is real.
The Fed’s need to worry more about the “value” of the currency than who’s photo appears on it.
Yeah that was the problem. The store manager and cop that showed up didn’t believe that it was legal tender. I would give a cashier a pass but not their superior who should have known. The cop definitely should have known.
Just going to use that currency that hasn’t been “modified” and plastic.
Yup...even Trump suggested maybe we should do a 2 dollar bill instead of changing the 10 and 20
We should eliminate bills and go with all coins.
At least then all of this tokenism would make sense.
Bahamas has a $3 bill. Probably enriched The Bahamas coffers, as every tourist had to have one!
This shyt has gone too far.
Please President Trump - make it a priority to undo all the damage the dhimmicrats have wreaked upon America!
Render unto Caesar...
Leave our money alone!!
I intend to write to President Trump about this outrage. MLK? NEVER!
I think it’s bullsh.. too, but they don’t care what we want. MLK doesn’t deserve to be on currency.
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