~ ROSA PARKS, American Civil Rights Leader & the U.S. $20.00 BILL ~
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THE WASHINGTON POST
by Abby Ohlheiser
April 16, 2015
"WHY A US SENATOR IS TRYING TO PUT A WOMAN'S FACE ON THE $20 BILL"
A months-long push to change the portrait on the $20 bill from ANDREW JACKSON to that of an important woman from American History became a bill in the Senate this week. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) who introduced the measure, told the Washington Post that she believes the change, if implemented would help to remind people how much we have benefited from so many men and women throughout American history.
more at the link...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/04/16/why-a-u-s-senator-is-trying-to-put-a-womans-face-on-the-20-bill/
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~ROSA PARKS
(1913-2005) Tuskegee, Alabama born African American activist in the Montgomery, AL Bus Boycott of 1955 and courageous, determined American pioneer of the Civil Rights movement who once said,
"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in".
More BIO: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
-Arrest photo after Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery, AL in 1955
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rotating portraits on bills every 5 years or so to provide opportunities for other notables like Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Frances Perkins, Clara Barton, Shirley Chisolm, Mother Jones, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman. 
all men, and no women- so there's some catching up to do. *As said, that likeness of Parks on the $20 is only proposed I hope, and it's atypical- she wasn't always old!- and many other images of her exist. During the Montgomery Boycott for which she is most known, she was about age 42 (not 82!). 
Martha Washington appeared on the $1 silver certificate bills for a while in the late 1800s.
Susan B. Anthony, Helen Keller, and Sacagawea have appeared on coin money.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101719889
When asked why she is little known and why everyone thinks only of Rosa Parks, Colvin says the NAACP and all the other black organizations felt Parks would be a good icon because "she was an adult. They didn't think teenagers would be reliable."
She also says Parks had the right hair and the right look.
"Her skin texture was the kind that people associate with the middle class," says Colvin. "She fit that profile."
David Garrow, a historian and the author of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, says people may think that Parks' action was spontaneous, but black civic leaders had been thinking about what to do about the Montgomery buses for years.
After Colvin's arrest, she found herself shunned by parts of her community. She experienced various difficulties and became pregnant. Civil rights leaders felt she was an inappropriate symbol for a test case.
The Santa Clarita Valley in North Los Angeles county is the SCV.
For a bedroom community it is always in the news. Usually a brush fire or a Santa Ana wind blowing things down.
Then there was the Northridge earthquake. It put the mobile in our mobile home! 
Makes us a little nervous since we're still using scrip from the company store, fatback or some corn liquor if we can get it. That and the 'favors system' some folks call the revolver door around here in WSOTP. Like that flag, real nice. Now you go on about your business and have a good day...See you around-
That's why Washington will never eliminate cash.
She's one of our 'heroes' there - along with Douglas (he ran his free press in Rochester) and Anthony (Susan B.)
You know why I liked her more than any of other choices? She was this serious "doer" - and if she were brought back to life and told - hey! We are doing this for you . . .
She would be look around at all of us and say "Great. Wonderful. Now enough of this jibber jabber and get back to work! " 
in the face of enormous disadvantages!