Thursday, 14 May 2015

People have voted Harriet Tubman to potentially replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill

For the past few months, a campaign by a nonprofit organization to put a woman on the $20 bill has been gathering steam.

The campaign, called Women on 20s, has hundreds of thousands of followers, including a number of public figures, like Susan Sarandon, Chelsea Clinton, Ellen Degeneres, and U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios. Even President Obama has said it’s a good idea.


In addition, three bills in support of having women on the 20 have already been introduced into the House and Senate.

Source indicates on Tuesday, over 600,000 votes submitted to a poll on the Women on 20s website were counted, and Harriet Tubman was chosen as the face of the desired new $20 bill. The petition was soon after submitted to Obama.

Voters had 15 historically important women to choose from, compiled with advice from historians and activists.
From the four finalists, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee nation, voters chose Tubman over second-place Roosevelt by around 7,000 votes.

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