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Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced Wednesday that Harriet Tubman will get a new home on the $20, sending the slave-owning Andrew Jackson packing, according to Politico.
The whole twisty-turny saga began last year, when the group Women on 20s started an online campaign to get a woman to replace the notorious fuckwad on the $20. Alas, Lew said the $20 wasn’t due for a redesign, but he hinted at a woman replacing Hamilton on the $10 bill instead.
Then, after America’s recent obsession over Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical and Lew assuring Miranda that he was going to be “very happy” with the $10 design, activists were left wondering if ladies would have to wait another 150 years before making it onto US currency.
Fortunately Lew has changed his mind about Jackson again, and Tubman will be gracing a greenback as part of a massive overhaul in US currency over the next few decades. Officials told Politico that Tubman is just one of many new additions, claiming Hamilton will have to make some room for leaders of the women’s suffrage movement on the $10, and civil rights leaders will cozy up to Lincoln on the $5. Lew said he expects all three bills to be in circulation by 2030.
Harriet Tubman, the female abolitionist who pioneered the Underground Railroad, seems like a choice that most Americans can get behind, but not everyone is thrilled with the decision. Former presidential candidate Ben Carson told Fox News Tuesday that he rather see Tubman on the $2, for some insane reason.
