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Saturday, March 07, 2015

This group wants to banish Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill

Andrew Jackson's portrait has held its place on the $20 bill since Jackson replaced Grover Cleveland in 1928. For the organizers of Women on $20s, that's quite long enough. "A woman's place is on the money," the Women on $20s campaign says. The new group has come up with a list of 15 women it would like to see on the $20 bill instead, including Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt and Harriet Tubman.

Campaign organizers are targeting the 20 because 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

But there's another reason: Jackson's authorization and enforcement of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 -- which forced several Native American tribes to give up their land to white farmers and move to Oklahoma -- makes his continued presence on American currency controversial. Slate pitched the idea of doing away with the seventh U.S. president's face on the $20 bill last year, writing: "Andrew Jackson engineered a genocide. He shouldn’t be on our currency."

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9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Next they will want a $3 bill with Obama on it.

Anonymous said...

Jackson was the last President to pay off the national debt. I wish they still made Democrats like him.

Anonymous said...

This is so stupid, they aren't helping their cause with this nonsense.

Anonymous said...

So many faces, so many choices, so much baloney.

Anonymous said...

You just know that after Hillary completes her eight years as president, she'll be on a coin or a bill. (no pun intended)

Ben In Salisbury said...

There can always be a two style bill of the same denomination, pain in the butt and expensive but possilbe

Anonymous said...

Ulysses Grant, who won the Civil War for the North, was probably the most pro-slavery president ever, refusing to free his own slaves after the civil war, it literally took an act of Congress to force him to free them, long after the war ended,

So I guess the $50 will be targeted next.

Anonymous said...

WHY? Nothing better to do? Quit trying to change things. Most are meaningless & picayune.

Anonymous said...

Perhaps we need reminding of these transgressions.