On a new 20-dollar note a woman will appear

She will become the first woman depicted on American notes for more than one hundred years.

Before her the former first lady Marta Washington received this honor being depicted at the silver certificate in one dollar produced in 1891-1896, and Indian princess Pocahontas – her picture had been presented on 20-dollar not from 1865 to 1869.

On the new 20-dollar note the picture of Harriet Tumben who used to fight for the slavery cancellation will change the portrait of the seventh president of the USA, slaveholder Andrew Jackson.

Last year, the Ministry of Finances claimed that it is planning to change on 10-dollar notes the portrait of the founder of financial system of the USA Alexander Hamilton. This initiative in American society was perceived in a negative way.

Other changes will be implemented in the design of new American notes.

As the Minister of Finances of the USA Jack Lew reported, at the face of 10-dollar note the portrait of Hamilton will be preserved, but at the back of the note the famous suffragettes will be depicted in honor of the leaders of the movement for women right.

At five-dollar not activists of the movement for civil rights will be depicted.

Hurriet Tubmen was born in the family of a slave in 1820 in Maryland State. In 1849, she escaped from bondage to North where she joined the movement of abolitionists which struggled against slavery.

Tubmen was vigorously involved into activity of so-called ‘The Underground Railroad’, the secret network of activists who helped to the escapees from slave plantation to reach the Northern states and Canada, and personally helped to liberate nearly seventy slaves.

The majority of participants of the Internet survey ‘Women on twenty-dollar notes’ conducted by the research group WomenOn 20s expressed their opinion for the personality of Hurriet Tubmen depicted at 20-dollar note.

За то, чтобы портрет Гарриет Табмен появился на 20-долларовой банкноте, высказалось Among other possible candidacies there were former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, spearhead of the movement for civil rights of black people Rosa Parks and chief of Cherokee Wilma Mankiller.

The final design of new notes is intended to be invented by 2020.