Margaret Sanger? I'm shocked she's even in that list... regardless of how you feel about abortion, she is basically the "mother" of Eugenics that basically forcibly tube-tied black women and prostitutes. Her goal was to eradicate blacks.
A group pushing to replace Jackson on the $20 bill with a woman has narrowed it down to four potential candidates - including a famous female Native American chief.
The final cut of Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks and Mankiller were selected by more than 250,000 voters in an online poll from a field of 15 famous American women, according to Women On 20s.
The group, which also goes by W20, is lobbying to put one of these women on the $20 bill by 2020, the 100th anniversary off the ratification of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote.
Roosevelt, Tubman and Parks emerged at the top of the balloting. Mankiller, a Cherokee Chief who received the Medal of Freedom in 1998, was added to have a Native American woman in the running. Mankiller died in 2010.
Among the original candidates who did not make the final four was Susan B. Anthony. The leader of the women's suffrage movement in the 1800's appeared on the dollar coin before she was replaced with an image of Sacagawea, a Native American woman who helped the explorers Lewis and Clark.
But there are still no women on U.S. paper currency and W20 is petitioning the president and Congress to change that.
"We believe this simple, symbolic and long-overdue change could be an important stepping stone for other initiatives promoting gender equality," the group says on its website. "Our money does say something about us, about what we value."
Meanwhile, the $10 bill - which features Alexander Hamilton - is on track for a makeover. A redesigned version is set to enter circulation in 2020, according to the Treasury Department.
Why does it matter that there is only one face used on a given bill? Why not many different faces? We still look at the number to decide if it's the one to hand over - not the face. I know it's tradition and an emotional issue but I don't see why we need to continue with that.
I do think you need to be dead before you get your pic on a bill. That gives us time to decide if your legacy is worth honoring. But I don't think I will be confused with different pictures on the same bill.
What did JFK do to warrant being on a half dollar much less a new denomination paper bill?
He was a war hero (P.T. 109) and also the first Roman Catholic elected President (a big deal at the time). Being killed while in office also gives him cred.
I didn't care for him politically at the time (preferred Barry) but JFK was very popular.
Why does it matter that there is only one face used on a given bill? Why not many different faces?
I was looking at that Kennedy bill above and thinking it should include Marilyn Monroe. I can't think of JFK without thinking of her singing Happy Birthday to him.
I have to agree with this. I would add, the thing about replacing someone currently on a bill, is it sort of seems to mean we dont care what that person did anymore.
Well, that little Trail of Tears thing doesn't play as well as it used to.
It seems like one little thing. But when it happens next to the twisting of the constitution and bill of rights and abuse of executive power that seems to be happening more and more it just kind of makes one take notice. Seeing the response of some not caring draws more attention to it for me. One way to look at it is if we re-define ourselves, or even just consider our definition worthless, havent we sort of undermined the whole concept, the whole foundation that we stand on, or for? Or should stand for? It could be said to be over thinking it, but how about if they wanted to change or eliminate the faces on Mt Rushmore? If people were fine with that, it could mean that they no longer care about it, which in itself is a problem I think. Maybe we've gotten to a point that we see all of history as propaganda, even real, important things. Anyway it could be about many things, simple affirmative action, or part of revising history, who knows.
Harriet Tubman won with 118,328 votes. Second place was Roosevelt with 111,227.
It doesn't take an "Act of Congress" - it just requires the Secretary of the Treasury to make the change.
That man is Jack Lew, appointed by President Obama, and confirmed by the Senate in 2013.
Women on 20s hopes the more than 600,000 voters in the online campaign will convince the President to use his influence and make it happen. | | | My thought, he'll do it just to spend money and to make him famous for making the change. They should make a $25 bill and have a real petition that'll be known to everyone and use brackets because we're used to those and it'll spend more money.
