Harriet Tubman On the Front of 20 Dollars Bill: Honoring An Extraordinary Woman
It will take 14 years, in 2030 to be exact, to have Harriet Tubman's face on the new $20 bill. But again, we have waited almost 100 years for this moment: seing the first woman on a US banknote since Martha Washington briefly graced the $1 bill in the 1890s, but most importantly the first Black woman, whose efforts, deemed almost beyond the humanly possible, well documented in her lifetime, but like many African-Americans written out of history in the decades after the Civil War, given one of the most prominent honors in the US.
Most importantly, Harriet Tubman, a slave who became a prominent abolitionist, will replace on the front of the bill a former president who owned slaves. Former President Andrew Jackson, a slave owner, will be moved to the back.
It is said that in mid-October 1849, Harriet Tubman, a slave in the state of Maryland, crossed the invisible line that borders the state of Pennsylvania. She