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    It’s All About the Tubmans

    By rmrd0000 on Sun, 01/10/2021 - 11:00pm |

    From the WaPo

    The $20 bill is getting a new — but familiar — face.

    The Biden administration will resume the process to replace President Andrew Jackson’s face on the note with famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman, White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters during her Monday news briefing. A Treasury Department spokesperson confirmed the change.

    Tubman will become the first Black person on the face of American paper currency and the first woman in generations; Martha Washington appeared on a $1 bill in the 1890s, and Pocahontas was in a group picture on the $20 bill in the 1860s, according to Reuters.

    “The Treasury Department is taking steps to resume efforts to put Harriet Tubman on the front of the new $20 notes,” Psaki said. “It’s important that our notes … reflect the history and diversity of our country, and Harriet Tubman’s image gracing the new $20 note would certainly reflect that. So we’re exploring ways to speed up that effort.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/25/harriet-tubman-20-dollar-bill/

    Comments

    Cool. A great way to commemorate this would be to give people 70 of those banknotes.


    by Orion on Tue, 01/26/2021 - 3:44am

    True


    by rmrd0000 on Tue, 01/26/2021 - 7:26am