The
Women On 20s campaign has chosen their first woman on the $20 bill.
Harriet Tubman:
After two months and an election in which more than 600,000 people cast ballots in an online poll, the non-profit grassroots campaign, Women On 20s, announced today that in a very close race, the public chose Harriet Tubman from a field of heroic American women to grace a new $20 bill.
The organizers at the same time revealed on their website, petitions in both video and written form that were submitted this morning to the White House, urging President Barack Obama to direct the Treasury Secretary to begin the process of replacing the image of President Andrew Jackson with that of a woman of great stature who played a significant role in American history.
The
results were close at the top: Tubman received 118,328 of the votes, narrowly beating out the equally lauded Eleanor Roosevelt (111,227). Rosa Parks and Wilma Mankiller came in third and fourth, respectively.
Daily Kos writer Meteor Blades has a good post about the campaign and Ms. Tubman here.