According
to New York Times,The Treasury Department announced Wednesday that women will be incorporated
into new designs for the $5, $10 and $20 bills. Here is a look at the new
lineup.
Front
of the $20 Bill:
Harriet Tubman
Araminta
Ross, known as “Minty,” was born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland
around 1822. When she was about 26, and married to John Tubman, she escaped to
Philadelphia and took her mother’s given name, Harriet. She later returned to
rescue family members, and was asked by slaves not related to her to help them
escape as well. She took great risks traveling at night from the South to the
free North via a network of secret routes and safe houses on the Underground
Railroad. When the Civil War began, Tubman became a spy for the Union.
check out the rest after the cut
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B.
Anthony was born in 1820 to a Quaker family in Massachusetts and became an
antislavery activist as a teenager. With Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she founded
and led several women’s groups and suffrage organizations and played a central
role in pressing for what would become the 19th Amendment granting women’s
suffrage. In 1872 she was arrested on charges of voting in her hometown,
Rochester, convicted and ordered to pay a fine. Six years later, she and
Stanton presented Congress with an amendment giving women the right to vote.
She died in 1906, 14 years before it was ratified.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, born in 1815, was a pioneer of the women’s rights movement who
played a central role in the drive for women’s suffrage. In 1848 at Seneca
Falls, N.Y, she presented the “Declaration of Sentiments” that echoed the
language of the Declaration of Independence. But Stanton’s version, signed by
68 women and 32 men, denounced the “long train of abuses” inflicted by men on
women. “Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this
government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the
equal station to which they are entitled,” Stanton wrote.
Lucretia Mott
Lucretia
Coffin Mott, born in 1793, was a Quaker who devoted herself to abolitionist and
women’s causes. She played a key role in organizing the Seneca Falls convention
and producing the “Declaration of Sentiments” that called for women’s equality.
But she was stunned by Stanton’s call at the convention for women to be allowed
to vote. “Oh Lizzie, if thee demands that, thee will make us ridiculous!” Mott
protested. But she remained a central player in both the antislavery and
women’s suffrage movement.
Alice Paul
Alice Paul,
a Quaker born in 1885 who was taken to women’s suffrage meetings as a teenager,
founded the National Women’s Party in 1916. She organized protests for suffrage
in front of the White House, many of them resulting in beatings by the police. The
effort led to the 19th Amendment. Paul, who had a Ph.D. in economics from the
University of Pennsylvania, established a headquarters for the Women’s Party in
a house near the Capitol, which President Obama has designated as the
Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument. Mr. Obama has called her “a
brilliant community organizer and political strategist.’’
Sojourner Truth
Isabella
Baumfree — a Dutch-speaking slave born in 1797 in rural New York — changed her
name to Sojourner Truth after she walked off an upstate farm in 1826 with her
infant daughter. She became a Christian preacher and grew increasingly
political in pressing for abolition, women’s suffrage and prison reform. She
delivered her most famous address, “Ain’t I a Woman,’’ in 1851 in Ohio, where
she said: “I could work as much and eat as much as a man — when I could get it
— and bear the lash as well. And ain’t I a woman?
Marian Anderson
Marian
Anderson, a coal seller’s daughter, was born in 1897 and had become one of the
world’s most accomplished contraltos by 1939, the year the Daughters of the
American Revolution refused to allow her to perform at Constitution Hall
because of a “white artists only” clause in its contracts. Eleanor Roosevelt,
the first lady, resigned from the D.A.R. in protest and encouraged the Interior
Department to find a place for Ms. Anderson to perform. The result was an
Easter concert at the Lincoln Memorial that drew 75,000 people, with millions
more tuning in on the radio.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor
Roosevelt, born in New York City in 1884, was the first lady from 1933 to 1945
and redefined the role. Shortly after arriving at the White House, she held the
first news conference by a president’s wife and continually surprised the
country with her outspokenness and activism. After the death of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, she was named a delegate to the United Nations
General Assembly. She traveled the world as a human rights advocate, lecturer
and writer until her death in 1962. Her intervention on behalf of Marian
Anderson remains among her best-known moments.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The 1963
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was not the first time the Rev. Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. uttered the now-famous phrase: “I Have a Dream.” He had
said it before in speeches in Detroit and North Carolina, but it did not become
a national refrain until the day the Baptist preacher, who became the voice of
the civil rights movement, used it before 250,000 people on the steps of the
Lincoln Memorial. The phrase was part of a broader speech about racial justice
and equality, but the four words has endured as one of the most powerful,
pivotal moments in American history.
now, would these blacks be incorporated in the almighty currency? I doubt!!
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