Face-off

The face of money as we know it will soon be changing in the next decade or so. according to an article published on today on April 25, 2016 written by Sarah Pruitt US. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew has announced a makeover of U.S currency.

Previously in May of 2015, the advocacy of women on 20's conducted a poll asking which notable woman should replace Andrew Jackson on the 20 dollar bill by 2020, 100 years after the amendment passed which gave women the right to vote. Out of 600,000 People who were involved in the poll 118,328 chose Harriet Tubman which was 7,000 votes leading over Eleanor Roosevelt

Plans changed, last July he announced plans to redesign the $10 dollar bill, featuring a prominent woman from history yet to be named. In the new bill Alexander Hamilton will remain on the bill alongside the woman who is chosen to be on the bill. The advocacy group from woman on 20's were disappointed and argued that the chosen woman should have her own place of honor on the bill.

As of this week the treasury secretary announced a whole different game plan which included making over the $20 $10 and $5 dollar bill. Harriet Tubman will replace Jackson on the twenty dollar bill becoming the first ever woman in a century and also the first African American to ever be on the front of U.S currency. Jackson will not be all the way removed from the bill, on the flip side he will be shown in a much smaller image along side the White House.

The new plans for the redesigned $10 bill, Hamilton will hold his place on the currency but on the back, which the current image will be replaced with a photo of a 1913 suffrage march that ended in front of the U.S treasury building along with portraits of activist Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Paul and Susan B Anthony.

The back of the five dollar bill as we know it will change from the image of the Lincoln Memorial to a backdrop of the same monument with a depiction of the 1939 performance by the African-American singer Marian Anderson, a woman who was barred from performing at the segregated Constitution Hall. First Lady Roosevelt had arranged for her to play at the Lincoln Memorial. Roosevelt will appear on the back of the bill along side Dr. Marin Luther King Jr, who also delivered his "I have A Dream" speech in front of the same monument in 1963.

The last time U.S currency went under such a drastic redesign was in 1929, when paper money was reduced in size and design to cut cost. The final designs will be released in 2020 which is the centennial of women's suffrage in the United States.

I think that the new change to the faces of U.S currency will be beneficial will all the counterfeit that goes on, and it will be nice for women to know have the ability to be on U.S currency, Which is something that we all work so hard for day in and day out.