White House spokeswoman Jen Sake
revealed that the Treasury Department is already taking steps to put Harriet
Tubman on the $20 paper, as planned under former President Barack
Obama's administration.
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was an American political activist
on the abolition of slavery and the death penalty, escaping from slavery at an
early age.
Harriet is known for presiding over dangerous
operations to free slaves and rescue them from their owners using a network of
activists, safe houses, and secret railways.
She risked her life helping other
slaves and helped about 70 people flee to the north before slavery was banned,
and during the American Civil War, Tubman worked as a nurse and later became
the first woman
ever to lead an armed attack during the American Civil War, according to al-Ain
News.
The story has old papers:
In 2016, former President Barack
Obama decided to replace Topman with Andrew Jackson in the $20 coin,
celebrating the idea of honoring the "runaway slave" over the slave
owner, the Guardian reported at the time.
But Donald Trump, the former US
president, rejected the proposal, even putting a picture of Andrew Jackson in
the Oval Office.
The U.S. Treasury Department is
expected to issue new $20 banknotes featuring the image of the black-skinned
activist Harriet Tapman, a victim of slavery, making her the first woman to
print her picture on U.S. currency banknotes.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had
announced that the soon-to-be-released banknote would carry the image of Harriet
Tubman, ending a five-year wait.
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