Harriet Tubman to be the new face of the $20 bill

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Anonymous wrote:It should have been Clara Barton.

In March 2015, the organization Women on 20's began asking the public to vote for top female candidates to replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Among the 15 women included in the vote were Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, Clara Barton, and Harriet Tubman. In May it was revealed that Tubman edged out Roosevelt with almost 34% of the vote.
Sorry...Clara didn't get the votes.

Harriet Tubman is a much better choice than Rosa Parks. I respect what Rosa Parks did and her courage, but not getting out of a bus seat hardly compares to saving hundreds of people from slavery. I have always found Parks' historical significance to be a little overblown. As for Eleanor Roosevelt and Barton, they would have made fine choices too. Both did a lot to improve the world.

I think you should learn more about Rosa Parks. She did a lot more than just refuse to get out of her seat. Her resistance was very intentional in order to force a court battle. And she did it at a time when she was risking physical harm to herself. Her symbolic image has painted her as just a tired old lady, but she was anything but.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

PP again. I do agree, though, that Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt have had more historical impact. Tubman is an amazing choice...and one I would not have predicted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It should have been Clara Barton.

In March 2015, the organization Women on 20's began asking the public to vote for top female candidates to replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Among the 15 women included in the vote were Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, Clara Barton, and Harriet Tubman. In May it was revealed that Tubman edged out Roosevelt with almost 34% of the vote.
Sorry...Clara didn't get the votes.

Harriet Tubman is a much better choice than Rosa Parks. I respect what Rosa Parks did and her courage, but not getting out of a bus seat hardly compares to saving hundreds of people from slavery. I have always found Parks' historical significance to be a little overblown. As for Eleanor Roosevelt and Barton, they would have made fine choices too. Both did a lot to improve the world.

I think you should learn more about Rosa Parks. She did a lot more than just refuse to get out of her seat. Her resistance was very intentional in order to force a court battle. And she did it at a time when she was risking physical harm to herself. Her symbolic image has painted her as just a tired old lady, but she was anything but.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

Rosa Parks wasn't the only, or even the first, to do what she did. The NAACP chose her to be the symbol of protest.

Read about about Claudette Colvin: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101719889

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Harriet Tubman is a much better choice than Rosa Parks. I respect what Rosa Parks did and her courage, but not getting out of a bus seat hardly compares to saving hundreds of people from slavery. I have always found Parks' historical significance to be a little overblown. As for Eleanor Roosevelt and Barton, they would have made fine choices too. Both did a lot to improve the world.

I think you should learn more about Rosa Parks. She did a lot more than just refuse to get out of her seat. Her resistance was very intentional in order to force a court battle. And she did it at a time when she was risking physical harm to herself. Her symbolic image has painted her as just a tired old lady, but she was anything but.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

Rosa Parks wasn't the only, or even the first, to do what she did. The NAACP chose her to be the symbol of protest.

Read about about Claudette Colvin: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101719889

I know. Her Wikipedia bio even talks about the other protestors. But that doesn't diminish what Parks did. She was chosen by the NAACP because she was a local leader of the NAACP. It was her protest and willingness to go through the legal process that brought about the change in law.

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Lonnie Bunch, the founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture had this to say...

"For me, having Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill really says, first of all, that America realizes that it's not the same country that it once was — that it's a place where diversity matters and it allows us to make a hero out of someone like Harriet Tubman, who deserves to be a hero."

[Anonymous]

I'm happy for HT but not at the expense of Eleanor Roosevelt who got the most votes. Whenever something goes to women, white men try a "two-fer" to get someone black to appease blacks and women. So white women always end up last on the list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm happy for HT but not at the expense of Eleanor Roosevelt who got the most votes. Whenever something goes to women, white men try a "two-fer" to get someone black to appease blacks and women. So white women always end up last on the list.

Oh, really. Trying to appease blacks and women.

Do you really think people are going to start forgetting who Eleanor Roosevelt was?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm happy for HT but not at the expense of Eleanor Roosevelt who got the most votes. Whenever something goes to women, white men try a "two-fer" to get someone black to appease blacks and women. So white women always end up last on the list.

Tubman got the most votes...it was close, though.

[Anonymous]

Jackson kicked Grover Cleveland off the $20 in 1929, and he's had is 85 years to carry it. Time for someone new.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm happy for HT but not at the expense of Eleanor Roosevelt who got the most votes. Whenever something goes to women, white men try a "two-fer" to get someone black to appease blacks and women. So white women always end up last on the list.

Wrong and wrong.

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I respect the diversity of postage stamps.

[Anonymous]

I'm not a Trump supporter but he got it right this morning on the Today Store. Polictical Correct at its worse. At least he's not afraid to speck the truth.

[Anonymous]

Clearly we need more women on money and in other places of honor, seeing as how it was so difficult to choose JUST ONE.

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Anonymous wrote:YES!

This is OP. I can't express how much this moves me.

Me again, thank you for sharing this great news. Good bye, forever, Indian remover.

NY should give Manhattan back to the Indians too. It was a heap-big ripoff.

[Anonymous]

Tubman's appearance on the $20 bill has a special historical resonance: That's the same amount she eventually received from the U.S. Government as her monthly pension for her service as a nurse, scout, cook and spy during the Civil War, as well as for her status as the widow of a veteran.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm not a Trump supporter but he got it right this morning on the Today Store. Polictical Correct at its worse. At least he's not afraid to speck the truth.

Are you sure you're not a Trump supporter? You certainly have the spelling and grammar of a Trump supporter.