After the US Senate approved Janet Yellen as the Secretary of Finance, it became known about plans to radically change the appearance of the $20 bill.
The Ministry of Finance plans to issue a $20 bill with the image of Harriet Tubman, an African-American activist in the XNUMXth century slave emancipation movement.
The US Treasury will speed up the issuance of the $20 bill with the image of Harriet Tubman. Such a decision was taken by Obama, but under Trump the matter was shelved.
Now the portrait of Andrew Jackson is printed on the $20 bills, a populist president who was at odds with technocrat officials no less than Trump. Trump himself respects Jackson and kept his bust in the White House, but with the arrival of Biden, the bust disappeared.
Harriet Tubman is a black human rights activist who freed dozens of people from slavery in the middle of the last century.
At the age of 27, having escaped from slavery to the American North, she organized 13 missions to save approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends. They were transported to safe places using a network of anti-slavery activists and asylums.
In her new place, Tubman helped the survivors find housing and work, founded a shelter for elderly African Americans. For this she received the nickname "Moses".
During the American Civil War, she was an armed scout and spy. She led an armed expedition that freed more than 700 slaves.
Later, Tubman joined the suffragette movement and fought for the right to vote for women.
They decided to sacrifice Jackson, considering him the most suitable candidate for flight, since he is known for his repressions against black slaves and the indigenous population of America - Indians. Who nicknamed him the "Iron General" for his cruelty.
He also personally suppressed slave uprisings.
