A woman will appear on redesigned $10 bill in 2020
Source: Washington Post
Will it be Susan B. Anthony or Harriet Tubman? Eleanor Roosevelt or Rosa Parks? Or another important woman from American history?
These will be among the names the nation ponders after the Obama administrations announcement late Wednesday that a woman will be featured on the $10 bill, the first time in well over a century that a female portrait will grace the United States paper money.
The redesigned bill will be unveiled in 2020 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the right of women to vote. The Treasury Department is launching a massive public campaign to solicit suggestions through social media and town halls for what the bill should look like and who should be on it. The only requirements for candidacy are that the woman be deceased and embody the theme of the bills new look: Democracy.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/woman-to-appear-on-10-bill-in-2020/2015/06/17/90f7c3ee-153c-11e5-89f3-61410da94eb1_story.html
niyad
(113,966 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)this means Jackson stays. I'm not too happy about that.
brooklynite
(95,007 posts)kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)Replacing Jackson would have been great.
pipoman
(16,038 posts)This woman will be apolitical...Susan B. already has the dollar. Harriet maybe, but Rosa is more contemporary...I think Rosa....
cstanleytech
(26,361 posts)have never really caught on plus their size was so close to the quarter that it confused people.
pipoman
(16,038 posts)Just last fall purchased a $25 train ticket from a kiosk, paid with 2 20's and got 15 SBA and Sacagawea...I just don't think they would use her again with all of the other good candidates...
shenmue
(38,506 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)cstanleytech
(26,361 posts)seeing as she was the first women to receive a medical degree in the US.
MFM008
(19,837 posts)tired of dead white guys.
niyad
(113,966 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)I'd love it if the reich wing churches had collection plates full of these tens and the teabaggers had to look at that all the time.
Of course the reich wingers will probably go to ridiculous lengths to keep from using $10 bills then. You'll have the Republican Bishops in the church running around saying possessing a $10 will cause automatic excommunication. Plus all the other reich-wing churches will be doing similar stuff.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)He was a Federalist, and the reason the U.S. Treasury exists.
Rhiannon12866
(206,868 posts)I'm a graduate of Hamilton College.
MuseRider
(34,140 posts)and Harriet Tubman was to replace Jackson. What happened to that? Why did they even bother to ask if they are just going to go ahead and do what they wanted anyway?
Calista241
(5,586 posts)I'm glad the US Treasury made this decision though.
MuseRider
(34,140 posts)I agree, I am very glad they are doing it. Thanks.
NYC Liberal
(20,138 posts)MuseRider
(34,140 posts)I was not aware of that.
NYC Liberal
(20,138 posts)to vote in this one for sure.
I hope it's Harriet Tubman or Rosa Parks.
treestar
(82,383 posts)His time in the sun no more! No wait, it's Hamilton on the $10. Geez for a minute I could not remember.
elephant hunter
(70 posts)I have just wanted to put her name out there since I first heard of a potential change and this just seemed like an opportunity to do so.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)But more likely Anthony or Santon.
niyad
(113,966 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)Better late than never.
okasha
(11,573 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)niyad
(113,966 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Alexander Hamilton is probably the most important man of that era not to be President, especially regarding currency. But I guess no one knows who the fuck he is anymore.
damyank913
(787 posts)...I think that maybe the negative history of our country, to our detriment, is canceling out the positive history.
ustilago
(30 posts)Why is it that whenever we decide to do anything in this country it's always appended with "5 years from now"?
niyad
(113,966 posts)McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Kablooie
(18,648 posts)Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)So Kim is not eligable.
Kablooie
(18,648 posts)denbot
(9,901 posts)She seems to be the flash point, and advocated for the rights of African Americans to vote as well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton
Scuba
(53,475 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,384 posts)or less.
JI7
(89,289 posts)Ok i just looked it up and they need to redesign the 10 anyways so that's why they are doing it on that one.
Maybe when they do the 20 again they can put hamilton on that one and get rid of Jackson.
bulloney
(4,113 posts)I always thought Barbara Bush's picture is on the $1 bill.
Telcontar
(660 posts)I like the dollars as they are. Every time they change them, it throws me off. Granted, I generally don't have any dollars, but when I do I like being able to recognize them.
CrispyQ
(36,567 posts)Sorry your brain is going to be taxed by a new face on the $10. You could refuse to accept any $10's & demand $5's instead. Problem solved.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)brooklynite
(95,007 posts)better?
joanbarnes
(1,724 posts)CrispyQ
(36,567 posts)CrispyQ
(36,567 posts)Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)Not only because she is a popular choice and she is a genuine American hero, but because there's not a single image of her in life where she doesn't look extremely and justifiably pissed off.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)In 1855 she earned her medical degree at Syracuse Medical College in New York, married and started a medical practice. The practice didn't do well and she volunteered with the Union Army at the outbreak of the American Civil War and served as a surgeon at a temporary hospital inside the capitol. Women and sectarian physicians were not even considered for the Union Army Examining Board because they were unfit, let alone someone who met both of those qualifications.[2] She was captured by Confederate forces after crossing enemy lines to treat wounded civilians and arrested as a spy. She was sent as a prisoner of war to Richmond, Virginia until released in a prisoner exchange.
After the war, she was approved for the highest United States Armed Forces decoration for bravery, the Medal of Honor, for her efforts during the Civil War. She is the only woman to receive the medal and one of only eight civilians to receive it. Her name was deleted from the Army Medal of Honor Roll in 1917 and restored in 1977. After the war, she was a writer and lecturer supporting the women's suffrage movement until her death in 1919.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Edwards_Walker
Walker, ca 1870. She often wore men's clothes and was arrested for impersonating a man several times.
I recently helped a family friend prepare a book report on Mary Walker and found her bio fascinating...
jmowreader
(50,601 posts)Thanks to the ATM, the $20 bill is much more widely used than the $10.
LeftOfWest
(482 posts)My Vote.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)she's seriously a hero.