Show her the money!(WOMEN) (women in American history to be put in the $20 bill) (Brief article)

Move over, Andrew Jackson! A new group called Women on 20s is trying to swap the seventh U.S. president on the $20 bill with an influential woman in American history. The four finalists are civil rights activist Rosa Parks (above): Wilma Mankiller, first female chief of the Cherokee Nation; Harriet Tubman, who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad; and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. (Make your pick at womenon20s.org.) The goal is to get the new bill in circulation by 2020, the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right...

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