Harriet Tubman $20 Bill No Longer Coming In 2020: Mnuchin Says Redesign Postponed
Source: CNBC
The redesign of the $20 bill featuring Harriet Tubman will no longer be unveiled in 2020, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday. The unveiling had been timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. Mnuchin said the design process has been delayed and no new imagery will be unveiled until 2028.
“The primary reason we have looked at redesigning the currency is for counterfeiting issues,” Mnuchin said in response to questions by Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., during a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee. “Based upon this, the $20 bill will now not come out until 2028. The $10 bill and the $50 bill will come out with new features beforehand.”
The Tubman design was announced in 2016 by former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew following a 10-month process in which the department sought input from the public. “The decision to put Harriet Tubman on the new $20 was driven by thousands of responses we received from Americans young and old,” Lew said at the time. “I have been particularly struck by the many comments and reactions from children for whom Harriet Tubman is not just a historical figure, but a role model for leadership and participation in our democracy.”
President Donald Trump, months before he was elected, called the decision to put Tubman on the currency “pure political correctness” and proposed putting her portrait on the $2 bill. -MORE...
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Lately, currency has become my go-to tool for civil disobedience. If I’m in the checkout line at Trader Joe’s, not much gives me more satisfaction than paying for my cereal and cookie butter with a $20 bill bearing the face not of Andrew Jackson but of Harriet Tubman. You might have read about the TubmanStamp — a pocket-size rubber stamp that perfectly superimposes the face of Harriet Tubman over that of President Andrew Jackson on $20 bills.
The subversive accessory has been years in the making. On April 20, 2016, the U.S. Treasury announced plans to add Our Lady Tubman — the iconic abolitionist and feminist — to the front of the $20 bill, bumping the controversial Jackson to the back. But following you-know-who’s January 2017 inauguration, those plans were quickly scrapped after he allegedly said to Omarosa, “You want me to put that face on the twenty-dollar bill?!” But now, thanks to New York–based artist Dano Wall, anyone can add Tubman’s face to the $20 themselves.
The handheld stamp — which Wall offers on its own without ink, in a set that comes with a pad, or as a free download for anyone with access to a 3-D printer to do it yourself — is designed with a semi-circle on one side, making it easy to line up with the circular Federal Reserve seal on the front of the bill (once aligned, you simply stamp to perfectly cover Jackson’s face with Tubman’s). If you’re wondering whether a stamped bill still works as legal tender, it does under U.S. law because you’re not changing its value, using it to advertise a business, or destroying it beyond recognition. Trader Joe’s isn’t the only place I’ve paid with stamped bills; I’ve also used them in vending machines, at Target, and at the bar at Soho House in Los Angeles (where in addition to being accepted, they’ve always sparked interesting conversation).
The stamp is even on its way to achieving historical value (four museums, including an arm of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, have acquired it as part of their collections). Who knows? It might even become a collector’s item. Beyond its symbolic value, buying it does some concrete good, too: Wall is donating proceeds to civil-rights organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center and Rachel Cargle’s Black Women’s Therapy Fund. And for me as a black woman, the stamp’s most profound appeal will always be the ease with which it allows me to rebelliously imprint the face of a former slave (like my ancestors) on a form of the currency once used to trade them.
http://nymag.com/strategist/article/tubmanstamp-harriet-tubman-stamp-review.html
In a statement, Shaheen said “this delay sends an unmistakable message to women and girls, and communities of color, who were promised they’d see Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.”
“The needless foot-dragging on this important effort is unacceptable. Our currency tells our country’s story and it is past time to honor the contributions of Harriet Tubman,” Shaheen said.
Yes it is.
Thanks.
100%.
As long as Trump, aka racist in chief, is in office.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/americas/viola-desmond-canadian-currency-trnd/index.html
(CNN)Almost a decade before Rosa Parks sparked the civil rights movement in the US, a woman in Nova Scotia kicked off Canada's with a similar act of defiance at a segregated movie theater.
And this month, that woman, Viola Desmond, became the first black person to appear on Canadian currency. She's also the first woman to appear alone who's not a British royal.
The Bank of Canada unveiled a new $10 bill featuring Desmond last week on International Women's Day. She was selected after an open call for nominations for an iconic Canadian woman to appear on a redesigned bank note, the bank said in a statement. The new bill will be in circulation by the end of the year.
Her story
The then-32-year-old business owner and beautician from Halifax stepped into history in November 1946 when she tried to go see a movie. Desmond, who was on the road selling her beauty products, went to the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow to kill some time while her car was being repaired.
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