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:
Next they will want a $3 bill with Obama on it.
Jackson was the last President to pay off the national debt. I wish they still made Democrats like him.
This is so stupid, they aren't helping their cause with this nonsense.
So many faces, so many choices, so much baloney.
You just know that after Hillary completes her eight years as president, she'll be on a coin or a bill. (no pun intended)
There can always be a two style bill of the same denomination, pain in the butt and expensive but possilbe
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.
WHY? Nothing better to do? Quit trying to change things. Most are meaningless & picayune.
Perhaps we need reminding of these transgressions.
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