Why Harriet Tubman shouldn't be on the 20 dollar bill

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Why Harriet Tubman shouldn't be on the 20 dollar bill

Recently we’ve had conversations about the effort to put a woman on the 20-dollar bill. The organization responsible for the effort, Women On 20s, held a public vote and said that the winner was Harriet Tubman, a former slave turned abolitionist.

1895 portrait of Harriet Tubman

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With 118,328 votes, Harriet Tubman edged Eleanor Roosevelt in a campaign to put a female face on the $20 bill.

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Recently we’ve had conversations about the effort to put a woman on the 20-dollar bill. The organization responsible for the effort, Women On 20s, held a public vote and said that the winner was Harriet Tubman, a former slave turned abolitionist.

There have been a lot of conversations this week about the effort to put a woman on the 20-dollar bill. The organization responsible for the effort, Women On 20s, held a public vote on four finalists and the winner was Harriet Tubman, a former slave turned abolitionist.

But Michelle Taylor, who blogs under the name Feminista Jones, has suggested that the effort to get a woman on currency, especially Tubman, is misguided.