Harriet Tubman Could Become New Face of US $20 Bill

The legendary Harriet Tubman, a black woman and escaped slave who led thousands of other slaves to freedom in the years before the Civil War, could one day become the new face of the U.S. $20 bill.   More than 600,000 people voted in an online campaign dubbed Women on 20s, which seeks to remove the image of the seventh U.S. president, Andrew Jackson, from the currency in favor of an accomplished woman by 2020. The campaign marks the 100th anniversary of the formal ratification of...

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