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Harriet Tubman will become first African-American on U.S. currency: Escaped slave and hero of the Underground Railroad is set to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill
- The Treasury originally planned to replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill with a woman
- But in an announcement on Wednesday, officials said they are keeping Hamilton and getting rid of Andrew Jackson on the $20
- Tubman was born a slave, escaped and then risked her life by returning to the South to lead others to freedom on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman will become the first African-American and woman on the $20 bill, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced on Wednesday.
Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson, the nation's seventh president, on the currency.
Tubman, who was born into slavery in the early part of the 19th century, escaped and then used the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad to transport other slaves to freedom. After the Civil War, Tubman, who died in 1913, became active in the campaign for women's suffrage.
This file photo taken on April 29, 2015 shows an image provided by the 'Women On 20's' organization featuring abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the U.S. twenty dollar bill. Celebrated former U.S. slave Harriet Tubman will replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 banknote, the first time an African-American has been featured on US money, a Treasury official said April 20, 2016
Last year, the treasury announced plans to replace Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first secretary of the treasury, on the $10 bill with a woman.
Tubman escaped slavery but then returned to the South to lead other slaves to freedom
But they have now decided to keep Hamilton after both Hamilton supporters and women's groups championed for the $20 bill to be changed to incorporate a woman instead.
In the past year, Hamilton has undergone a revival in popularity, with the success of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical named after the founding father.
Jackson, meanwhile, is a more complicated figure, and there is no doubt some symbolism in the former president - a slave owner - being replaced by a woman who was born into slavery.
When it was announced last year that the treasury would be printing a woman on U.S. currency for the first time in history, a women's group called Women on 20s organized a survey to select an appropriate figure.
Over the course of 10 weeks, the group collected 600,000 votes and Tubman came out on top.
Civil rights hero Rosa Parks, former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Wilma Mankiller - the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation - were among some of the other popular figures in the vote.
The $5 bill will also undergo change. The illustration of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the will be redesigned to honor 'events at the Lincoln Memorial that helped to shape our history and our democracy.' The new image will include civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson.
The treasury originally planned to replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill with a woman. But now they are replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Tubman, and keeping Hamilton as is
The $10 bill is the next note on Treasury's redesign calendar, and it aims introduce updated protections against counterfeiting. That redesign was scheduled to be unveiled in 2020, which marks the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. Lew had often cited that connection as a reason to put a woman on the $10 bill.
Various groups have been campaigning to get a woman honored on the nation's paper currency, which has been an all-male domain for more than a century.
The last woman featured on U.S. paper money was Martha Washington, who was on a dollar silver certificate from 1891 to 1896. The only other woman ever featured on U.S. paper money was Pocahontas, from 1865 to 1869. Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea are on dollar coins.
Harriet Tubman will become first woman on U.S. currency
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Harriet Tubman: Mwanamke mweusi ambaye Biden anataka kumuweka kwenye $20
26 Januari 2021
CHANZO CHA PICHA,GETTY IMAGES
Maelezo ya picha,
Mwanaharakati wa Marekani Harriet Tubman mwaka 1885.
Utawala wa Joe Biden unasema utaona namna wataavyoweza kuharakisha kupitisha muswada wa kutaka dola 20 ya Marekani kuwa na sura ya Harriet Tubman baada ya utawala wa Trump kuchelewesha zoezi hilo baada ya utawala wa Barack Obama kuanzisha mswada huo.
"Idara ya fedha watachukua hatua ya kuanza tena jitihada za kumuweka bi. Harriet Tubman katika noti ya dola $20 ,"Jen Psaki amesema kutoka idara ya habari ya Ikulu ya Marekani.
"Wanataka kusema fedha zetu, zinaashiria historia yetu na utofauti wetu , na picha ya Harriet Tubman ikiwekwa kwenye noti mpya ya dola 20 itaweza kuleta taswira ya namna hiyo."
Utawala wa Obama ilitangaza mwaka 2016 kuwa wataenda kumuweka Bi.Harriet Tubman katika fedha hiyo ya $20 na kumuondoa Andrew Jackson.
Lakini utawala wa Trump ulisema mwaka 2019 kuwa mabadiliko hayo yatachelewa na yanaweza kufanyika labda mwaka 2028 kwasababu za changamoto za kiteknolojia.
Na sasa Jen Psaki anasema wataongez kasi ili zoezi hilo lifanyike haraka iwezekanavyo.
Maelezo ya picha,
Namna ambavyo noti ya $20 inaweza kuonekana
Taarifa ya CNN inasema msemaji mmoja wa idara ya fedha anasema wanasubiri tu kupata uthibitisho wa kufanya hivyo.
Kama mabadiliko haya yakifanyika , Harriet Tubman atakuwa mwanamke wa kwanza mweusi kuwa katika fedha ya Marekani.
Harriet Tubman ni nani?
CHANZO CHA PICHA,GETTY IMAGES
Maelezo ya picha,
Harriet Tubman mnamo mwaka 1885.
Harriet Tubman alikuwa anafanya kazi kama mtumwa, mpelelezi na mwishoni alihusika kukomesha biashara ya utumwa.
Alikuwa mwanamke jasiri , alipokutana na changamoto nyingi.
- Harriet Tubman, alizaliwa katika mazingira utumwa mwaka 1822 huko Mashariki mwa Maryland. Ni mtoto wa nne kati ya watoto tisa na wazazi wake walimuita Araminta au Ross
- Harriet Tubman alifanya mahojiano ya kwanza ya kuanza kazi akiwa na miaka mitano tu.
- Harriet Tubman alitoroka shambani ambako alikuwa mtumwa na kukimbilia Pennsylvania mwaka 1849 lakini alirudi kuiokoa familia yake pamoja na watumwa wengine 300 .
- Baada ya mabadiloko ya katiba ya utumwa ya mwaka 1850 ambayo iliruhusu watumwa kuwa huru nchini humo, Harriet Tubman aliwaongoza watumwa kutoroka ilikuwa huru Canada kwa kutumia reli ya chini.
- Harriet Tubman alijulikana kwa jina la Bi. "Moses" wa reli ya barabara ya chini, ripoti zinasema hakupoteza abiria wake hata mmoja.
- Harriet Tubman ni miongoni mwa watumwa waliopambana kutokomeza utumwa.
- Kwa mujibu wa muandishi mmoja, Fergus Bordewich, ameandika Harriet Tubman alikuwa na nguvu sana kwa Wamarekani na aliwapa motisha ya kukabiliana katika vita ya wenyewe kupinga utumwa.
- Wakati wa vita, Harriet Tubman alitengeneza umoja wa jeshi katika wapishi , manesi na baadae wapepelezi.
- Harriet Tubman alifariki kutokana na nomonia akiwa na umri wa miaka 91 huko Auburn, New York mwaka 1913 baada ya kutoa maisha yake yote katika harakati za kupinga utumwa.
