WASHINGTON — Andrew Jackson may get the boot from the $20 bill in favor of a woman, and a group has chosen which woman it would like to see: Harriet Tubman.
Tubman, who rescued slaves on the Underground Railroad, received more than 33 percent of the vote in a 10-week online poll from Women on 20s — a nonprofit advocating for a woman to replace the seventh President of the United States on a new $20 bill.
Tubman garnered 33.6 percent of the votes cast, edging out former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, who received 31.5 percent of the more than 352,000 votes cast.
Coming in at third was Rosa Parks (18.2 percent) followed by Wilma Mankiller (16.7 percent).
“Our paper bills are like pocket monuments to great figures in our history,” Women On 20s Executive Director Susan Ades Stone said to CBS News. “Our work won’t be done until we’re holding a Harriet $20 bill in our hands in time for the centennial of women’s suffrage in 2020.”
Women on 20s sent the petition to put Tubman on 20s to President Barack Obama Tuesday morning as well as the White House Council on Women and Girls.
Also, the group will ask supporters to join a “virtual march” by taking to social media with the hashtag #DearMrPresident to let Obama know why Tubman should appear on the money.
