Harriet Tubman's image to be on New $20 Bill!

Goodbye, President Andrew Jackson. Jackson is going to be replaced on a twenty dollar by  Harriet Tubman. The selection of Tubman, abolitionist and known for her amazing work of bringing slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad, was made this week by Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew. It will be the first woman's image to be on paper currency, in the United Sates, since Martha Washington's image was on a dollar silver certificate(1891-1896). It may be up to ten years before the new $20 bills, with Tubman's image, are in circulation. The selection of Harriet Tubman is  the very first time an African- American has been chosen to be on the face of any U.S. paper currency.


Gail

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