Harriet Tubman To Replace Andrew Jackson On $20 Bill; Hamilton Stays On $10

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com/AP) — Former President Andrew Jackson will be replaced with 19th century abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, making her the first woman on U.S. paper currency in 100 years, officials announced Wednesday.

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said the reverse of the new $20 bill will feature images of the White House and Jackson, the nation's seventh president.

The decision to put Tubman on the bank note was "driven by thousands of responses we received from Americans young and old", Lew said.

CBS News tweeted a theoretical image for the redesigned Tubman bill.

Hamilton will remain on the $10 note after Lew announced last June that the $10 bill would be undergoing a redesign and would feature a "notable woman".

Instead, the Treasury building on the back of the bill will be replaced with leaders of the suffrage movement to give women the right to vote, including Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul.

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.

An online group, Women on 20s, said it was encouraged that Lew was responding to its campaign to replace Jackson with a woman. But it said it would not be satisfied unless Lew also committed to issuing the new $20 bill at the same time that the redesigned $10 bill is scheduled to be issued in 2020.

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.

However, the effort ran into strong objections from supporters of Hamilton, who is enjoying renewed pop culture interest with the hit Broadway musical "Hamilton."

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.

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.

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