Greenbacks getting new faces on them
Picking up where we left the story in yesterday’s edition: The seventh US President, Andrew Jackson, will no longer be the face on the USD 20 bill. The Treasury Department made a decision to replace his image with abolitionist hero Harriet Tubman’s. “Harriet Tubman was born into slavery. After she escaped, she became a conductor on the Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape to freedom. During the Civil War, she was active in the Union cause, serving as a nurse, a cook, and a scout, gathering intelligence. Looking back on her life, Harriet Tubman said, ‘I would fight for liberty so long as my strength lasted.’ After the war, she supported the cause of women’s suffrage and was active in suffragist organizations. She died in 1913 and was buried with military honors.” Vox are more blunt about the change, calling Jackson “a slaver, ethnic cleanser, and tyrant.” There will also be new USD 10 bills commemorating women’s suffrage and new USD 5 bills commemorating the historic events that occurred at the Lincoln Memorial and will include images of Marian Anderson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King Jr.