Rosa Parks Among Finalist of Women To Be on Face of New $20 Bill

Published April 8, 2015 by TNJ Staff
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rosaparksA group pushing to replace Jackson on the $20 bill with a woman has narrowed it down to four potential candidates – including a famous female Native American chief.

The final cut of Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks and Mankiller were selected by more than 250,000 voters in an online poll from a field of 15 famous American women, according to Women On 20s.
The group, which also goes by W20, is lobbying to put one of these women on the $20 bill by 2020, the 100th anniversary off the ratification of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote.

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