Move Over Jackson, A Woman Gets the $20

Alexander Hamilton is staying put on the $10 but move over Andrew Jackson on the $20 and make room for Harriet Tubman.

The redesign from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing would happen in 2020, but the bills would not see circulation until 2030.

An ongoing push by Women on 20s to get a woman on the bill by 2020, which would be the centennial of women's suffrage and the 19th Amendment (prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex), has proven successful.

Quick Harriet Tubman history:

Harriet Tubman escaped slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the Civil War. She was born in Maryland in 1820, and successfully escaped in 1849. She returned several times to rescue both family members and non-relatives from the plantation system. She led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North and is most famous for being "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, which was an elaborate secret network of safe houses organized to help slaves escape.

Best Harriet Tubman quotes:

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

I had crossed the line. I was free, but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

I grew up like neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

’Twant me, ’twas the Lord. I always told him, “I trust to you. I don’t know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,” and he always did.

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