Should Harriet Tubman Replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 Bill?
LatestHarriet Tubman would be the perfect replacement for Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, according to a contest held by a group called Women on 20s.
Concurrent with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s (D-NH) introduction of the Women on the Twenty Act in April, which would call for a “panel of citizens” to advise Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew on finding a replacement design, the group gathered votes—600,000 of them. Tubman, a former slave, abolitionist, Union spy and conductor on the Underground Railroad, was the most popular choice, according to the Washington Post. She beat out fellow finalists Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Wilma Mankiller.