Sunday, May 17, 2015

It is possible the release of 20-dollar bill with a female portrait

Harriet Tubman's candidacy, African American, who saved thousands of slaves, was voted more than 118 000 people online.

Harriet Tubman - African-American, managed to escape from slavery and to help free thousands of other slaves before the Civil War of 1861-1865, may one day become the new face of twenty-dollar bills.

More than 600 000 people participated in the online voting, entitled "Women at the Top Twenty", the organizers who want to by 2020 this bill instead of the seventh US president Andrew Jackson placed the portrait of one of the great heroines of American history.

The campaign is timed to the 100th anniversary of the formal ratification of the amendment to the Constitution, which gave women the right to vote. Although give an order to change the design of banknotes and coins can only be the Ministry of Finance, Congress has introduced a bill to place a female portrait on the banknote.

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