Move over Andrew Jackson, abolitionist Harriet Tubman is going to be the new face of the $20 bill—making her the first woman prominently featured on U.S paper currency. 

Unfortunately, we’ve got some waiting to do: The designs won’t be made public until 2020, and will likely take more time to make it into circulation.

Last year, Tubman was expected to replace Alexander Hamilton on the face of the $10. Since then, the Broadway musical Hamilton has exploded, leading to increased popularity for the former treasury secretary. 

The back of the $10, which currently displays a picture of the U.S. Treasury Building, is expected to get a redesign featuring important women from U.S. history. 

Until the new bills roll out, let’s celebrate Tubman’s latest accomplishment by remembering all the good she did when she was alive:

This article appears in Apr 14-20, 2016.

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7 replies on “Harriet Tubman Will Appear on the $20 Bill (Eventually)”

  1. This guy is a Civil War expert at UMass and has been questioning the new history books used in the public schools for years. I had not heard any discussion of this. But then it’s been so long since I saw a $20 bill.

    http://www.textbookleague.org/121tubby.htm

    All five of the textbooks that I have considered here give false impressions of the nature and effectiveness of the Underground Railroad, and all five mislead students by dwelling on Harriet Tubman and on fictitious accounts of her deeds. None of the books can give students any realistic idea of what the Underground Railroad was. None makes clear that most of the activities of the Underground Railroaders took place in the brief period between the enactment of the Compromise of 1850 (which included the Fugitive Slave Act of the same year) and the start of the Civil War. None conveys how hard it was for slaves to escape from bondage, particularly in the interior of the South. And none of the books enables students to appreciate that very few slaves ever tried to escape and that far fewer succeeded.

  4. I made my point in the comment. I am surprised to see such opposition to her, but it apparently has been taught lately in the public schools.

    You guys always look for somebody to call a racist. Drop the misplaced hate.

  5. The Washington Post carried a comprehensive article today on the “audacious career of Harriet Tubman” entitled, “You have no idea how hardcore Harriet Tubman really was.” If you can, check it out as it is informative and worth the read.

  6. Only trolls would try to diminish the well documented accomplishments of this long ignored American heroine. Everyone should do themselves a favor and learn more about this fascinating and inspiring person. I can’t wait to see her grace the $20 bill!

  7. Here is another interesting article about her life:

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/04/harriet_tubman_was_a_guntoting_republican.html

    Interesting conclusion:

    Harriet Tubman supported the Republican Party because it opposed slavery. She carried a gun because it protected the liberty and freedom of herself and those she delivered to freedom via the Underground Railroad. Just as Democrats sought to enslave and disarm blacks back then, they now seek to entrap them in high crime urban areas run by liberal Democrats who seek to deny them, and the rest of us, the right to keep and bear arms.

    Go ahead and put Harriet Tubman’s image on the $20 bill – the one showing the Republican leading slaves to freedom with a gun in her hand.

    y guess is by the time (2030 start date) rolls around we will no longer use paper money. Why such a long wait?

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