AFTER A CENTURY, HOW A 11 YEAR GIRL MADE WOMEN TO BE ON U.S CURRENCY NOTES ?

Sofia, 11 year old, from Cambridge in Massachusetts, had written to President Barack Obama in 2014 after a school project on historic American heroes,asking why there were no women on US bills

Obama later replied, appraising her proposal and suggesting what she can do

 

 Later, treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced  that Tubman will become the first African-American and woman on the $20 bill.That redesign was scheduled to be unveiled in 2020, which marks the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote.

  Tubman, who was born into slavery in the early part of the 19th century, escaped and then used the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad to transport other slaves to freedom. After the Civil War, Tubman, who died in 1913, became active in the campaign for women's suffrage. 

  Initially, the plans were to replace  Hamilton, the nation's first secretary of the treasury, on the $10 bill with a woman.But later decided to keep Hamilton after demands from both Hamilton supporters and women's groups  to have a woman on $20 bill instead.

The $5 bill will also undergo change. The illustration of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the will be redesigned to feature civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who gave his famous 'I have a dream' speech on the steps of the memorial in 1963.

It will also include Marian Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt. Anderson, an African-American opera singer, gave a concert at the memorial in 1939 after she had been blocked from singing at the then-segregated Constitution Hall. The Lincoln Memorial concert was arranged by Mrs. Roosevelt.

Hence the present announcement seems to be a justice to women, particularly a discriminated slave over a most alleged slave owner.