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Harriet Tubman: Dollar bills as history books
In the United States, a redesign of the $20 bill has been accompanied by a yearslong political row. President Joe Biden wants the African American and abolitionist Harriet Tubman to appear on the banknote.
A mural painting by Michael Rosato showing Harriet Tubman
Ernestine Wyatt sure looks relieved. The 66-year-old is certain: Harriet Tubman being on a 20-dollar bill that was something that was a done deal, she told DW.
The great-great-great-grandniece of Harriet Tubman hasn t tired of pointing out the importance of the Black civil rights campaigner, nor of fighting for her recognition.
March 31, 2021
The Biden administration recently reintroduced the Obama-era effort to replace Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.
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Amid a national reckoning on race, the U.S. is taking a closer look at who it holds up as an American patriot. She had an attitude of I am here and so I’m gonna make this country what it should be for all of us, said Ernestine Wyatt.
Wyatt is Harriet Tubman’s great-great-great-grandniece. Her Aunt Harriet is set to replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. It s going to exemplify her contribution as an American patriot … Aunt Harriet stood for America too. . You know, if you want to change then you have to be the change and that’s what she did all her life.