Harriet Tubman's legacy lingered and memories lingered on the forthcoming new $20 bill. It stands out that Harriet Tubman is replacing former President Andrew Jackson as the new character on the paper money.
Harriet Tubman's legacy has gained much influence not only in her era but in the present as well. The Founding Father will remain on the front of the $10 bill, and suffragists who fought to give women the right to vote will be added, including Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Paul and on the $20 bill, abolitionist Harriet Tubman joins the rank as well, according to a report from NBC News.
Even Treasury Secretary Jack Lew stated, "I'm very excited by it and I think it's much bigger than just honoring one woman. This is about saying that our money is going to tell a much bigger part of our story."
It appears that the paper money will undergo various changes and improvements. There will also be changes to the $5 bill and it will depict famous events from the Lincoln Memorial, such as the historic moment when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt invited Marian Anderson to sing on the monument's steps because the concert halls in Washington D.C. were segregated, as reported by the same post.
The legacy that Harriet Tubman has rendered will resonate through time and space and now it is being heightened even more by her appearance in the new $20 bill. Tubman's life and works are one of a kind. Tubman, a black woman, escaped slavery to become a conductor on the Underground Railroad, risking her life to lead slaves to freedom while Jackson, the son of Scots-Irish immigrants and owner of slaves, was elected president as a war hero and became known for policies that led to the deaths of countless Native Americans, reports The Los Angeles Times.
It stands to reason that even in the past links Jackson and Tubman and now both their names are being linked as well in relation to the face of the new $20 bill.
© 2017 Jobs & Hire All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.
