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    Treasury official says 19th century abolitionist Harriet Tubman will go on $20 bill

    WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department will announce on Wednesday afternoon that Harriet Tubman, an African-American who ferried thousands of slaves to freedom, will replace the slaveholding Andrew Jackson on the center of a new $20 note, according to a Treasury official, while newly popular Alexander Hamilton will remain on the face of the $10 bill.

    Other depictions of women and civil rights leaders will also be part of new currency designs.

    The new designs, from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, would be made public in 2020 in time for the centennial of woman's suffrage and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. None of the bills, including a new $5 note, would reach circulation until the next decade.

    It was unclear whether details of the unexpectedly sweeping changes would win over some women's groups, who had sharply criticized Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew for reneging on his 10-month-old commitment to put a woman on the face of the $10 bill, which is the one currently in line for an anti-counterfeiting makeover.

    But in the months of taking public comments on what woman he should pick, Mr. Lew evidently bowed to the Broadway-stoked popularity of the $10 bill's current star, Alexander Hamilton.

    Instead, images of women are expected to grace the back of the new bill, with Ms. Tubman taking the top spot on a redesigned $20 further into the future.

    When Mr. Lew announced in June that a woman was likely to front the $10, he thought it would be a feel-good moment for the Obama administration. That was before the rap musical "Hamilton" created legions of fans for the founder who was already on the bill, not only among well-to-do patrons shelling out big bucks for tickets on Broadway but also among tens of thousands of teenagers memorizing the lyrics and obsessing over details of Hamilton's life story.

    It complicated matters for Mr. Lew when "Hamilton" and its creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama this week. Mr. Miranda personally pressed Mr. Lew to keep Hamilton front and center, rallying Hamiltonians around the country.

    But in advance of the announcement, a number of women took to media to say a win for the hottest founding father would be a loss for many women who pressed for someone of their sex on the bill.

    "It's yet another 'wait your turn' moment for American women," the political commentator Cokie Roberts wrote Wednesday in The New York Times.

    Other women were not giving up hope, given the number of bills facing a revamp.

    "It may seem like we have more important things to worry about, but all of us will be watching to see if they find other opportunities," said Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/us...bman.html?_r=0

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    Well, if they are going to change and alter history like all good marxists do, and abolish those terrible founding fathers off of currency, I'm okey with Harriet Tubman.

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    Trump: Tubman on the $20 bill is 'pure political correctness'

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    Quote Originally Posted by CatchyUsername View Post
    Well, if they are going to change and alter history like all good marxists do, and abolish those terrible founding fathers off of currency, I'm okey with Harriet Tubman.
    Me too Catchy!
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    Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act

    At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States. Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. This difficult and sometimes deadly journey is known as the Trail of Tears.
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    Andrew Jackson had long been an advocate of what he called “Indian removal.” As an Army general, he had spent years leading brutal campaigns against the Creeks in Georgia and Alabama and the Seminoles in Florida–campaigns that resulted in the transfer of hundreds of thousands of acres of land from Indian nations to white farmers. As president, he continued this crusade. In 1830, he signed the Indian Removal Act, which gave the federal government the power to exchange Native-held land in the cotton kingdom east of the Mississippi for land to the west, in the “Indian colonization zone” that the United States had acquired as part of the Louisiana Purchase. (This “Indian territory” was located in present-day Oklahoma.)

    The law required the government to negotiate removal treaties fairly, voluntarily and peacefully: It did not permit the president or anyone else to coerce Native nations into giving up their land. However, President Jackson and his government frequently ignored the letter of the law and forced Native Americans to vacate lands they had lived on for generations. In the winter of 1831, under threat of invasion by the U.S. Army, the Choctaw became the first nation to be expelled from its land altogether. They made the journey to Indian territory on foot (some “bound in chains and marched double file,” one historian writes) and without any food, supplies or other help from the government. Thousands of people died along the way. It was, one Choctaw leader told an Alabama newspaper, a “trail of tears and death.”


    http://www.history.com/topics/native...trail-of-tears

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post

    YAS!!!!!

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    I didn't realize just how amazing she was!


    Who was Harriet Tubman?

    It was announced this week that Harriet Tubman will be on the face of the new $20 bill, to replace Andrew Jackson. Far too few today have heard much about this remarkable woman, so this is a good time to learn something about Harriet Tubman.

    She was born a slave in Maryland somewhere around 1820-1825. She escaped from slavery by using the Underground Railroad -- a series of secret routes running from the safe house of one anti-slavery citizen to another, which provided fleeing slaves safe passage and assistance from the South into the Northern states or Canada (see some of the routes on the map on the left). After finding refuge in Philadelphia, Tubman then began working for the Underground Railroad. She was a devoted abolitionist and took multiple trips to the South to help escaping slaves and also served as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, as well as supporting fellow abolitionist leader John Brown.

    During the Civil War, Harriet worked for the North as a nurse, a cook, a scout, and a spy, even receiving later in life a pension for the services she performed at that time.

    She was a devout Christian her entire life. Thomas Garrett (a Quaker partner and friend of Tubman's) said of her, "I never met with any person, of any color, who had more confidence in the voice of God, as spoken direct to her soul." Harriet also acknowledged her dependence on God, recalling about her race to freedom:...

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