Reaction to Harriet Tubman, a Civil War-era abolitionist, replacing Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 was widely positive. Tubman replacing Jackson on the $20, Hamilton spared Treasury Secretary Jack Lew reverses a plan to bump Hamilton after receiving fierce blowback. 
 
 Harriet Tubman will bump Andrew Jackson from the front of the $20 bill while Alexander Hamilton will stay put on the $10 — a historic move that gives a woman prime placement on U.S. currency and quells a controversy kicked up by Hamilton super-fans. 
 
 “Today, I’m excited to announce that for the first time in more than a century, the front of our currency will feature the portrait of a woman, Harriet Tubman, on the $20 note,” Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told reporters during a conference call Wednesday afternoon. “Her incredible story of courage and commitment to equality embody the ideals of democracy that our nation celebrates, and we’ll continue to value her legacy by honoring her on our currency.” 
 
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 Lew rolled out sweeping changes that will put a new cast of historic figures onto various bills that have remained largely static for decades. Leaders of the women’s suffrage movement will make their way onto the back of the $10 bill, while civil rights era leaders and other important moments in American history will be incorporated into the $5 bill. Jackson will be kicked to the back of the $20 bill. 
 
 The plan is a major reversal for Lew, who appeared taken aback by the swift rebukes Treasury received last summer when he announced that he was considering replacing Hamilton on the $10 bill with a woman. 
 
 While he explained that Hamilton was on the chopping block as a matter of practicality – the $10 bill was the next one up for a redesign – Lew still got an earful from fans of Hamilton, who helped create the Treasury Department and the modern American financial system. 
 
 Critics immediately called for Lew to take Jackson off the $20 bill instead, given the former president's role in moving Native Americans off their land. 
 
 Lew told POLITICO last July that Treasury was exploring ways to respond to critics. “There are a number of options of how we can resolve this,” Lew said. “We’re not taking Alexander Hamilton off our currency.” 
 
 But supporters of putting a woman on the $10 bill have complained that it will take too long for the $20 bill to come up for a redesign. Lew has predicted that the new bills will be unveiled in 2020 to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. 
 
 On the call on Wednesday, Lew said he would try and make the changes quickly. “The two things most important are the security of our money and getting this process to move as quickly as possible,” he said. 
 
 “Due to security needs, the redesigned $10 note is scheduled to go into circulation next,” Lew said. “I’ve directed the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to work closely with the Federal Reserve to accelerate work on the new $20 and $5 notes. Our goal is to have all three new notes go into circulation as quickly as possible, while ensuring that we protect against counterfeiting through effective and sophisticated production.” 
 
 The movement to keep Hamilton on the $10 bill was fueled by academics but gathered strength after the Broadway musical named after the former Treasury secretary and founding father became a smash hit. 
 
 “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda even directly lobbied Lew last month on Hamilton’s behalf, after which Miranda said Lew told him “you’re going to be very happy” with the redesign plan. 
 
 Reaction to Tubman, a Civil War-era abolitionist, replacing Jackson on the front of the $20 was widely positive, with Democratic presidential candidates quickly hailing Treasury’s decision. 
 
 “A woman, a leader, and a freedom fighter,” Hillary Clinton tweeted. “I can’t think of a better choice for the $20 bill than Harriet Tubman.” 
 
 Bernie Sanders concurred, tweeting roughly 30 minutes later that he “cannot think of an American hero more deserving of this honor than Harriet Tubman.” 
 
 Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) tweeted that it was “great news!” “Tubman on $20 is the right call,” she added. “The redesign needs to happen as soon as possible. Women have waited long enough.” 
 
 Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), who introduced the “Put a Woman on the Twenty Act in Congress” last year in the House (Shaheen introduced a similar bill in the Senate), also commended the decision Wednesday. 
 
 “There has been a lot of talk about putting a woman’s portrait on our money, but finally it sounds like Secretary Lew is putting our money where his mouth is,” Gutiérrez said in a prepared statement. “It is crazy that women have been mostly absent from our money up until now, with only a few exceptions.” 
 
 Conservatives also supported the selection of Tubman for the $20 bill. National Review writer Charles C.W. Cooke tweeted: “Given the sheer number of blows that Tubman struck for liberty, she belongs on the currency more than most. Good choice.” 
 
 Former Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, however, expressed his love for Tubman and what she accomplished but suggested that placing her on the $2 bill would be a more appropriate honor. 
 
 Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander on Wednesday expressed dissatisfaction with the decision to move Jackson, arguing that history shouldn't pit the former president against the anti-slavery activist. 
 
 “United States history is not Andrew Jackson versus Harriet Tubman,” he said in a statement. “It is Andrew Jackson and Harriet Tubman, both heroes of a nation’s work in progress toward great goals. It is unnecessary to diminish Jackson in order to honor Tubman.” 
 
 Historians and policy wonks weighed in as well, sharing praise for the compromise. 
 
 “[Hamilton] is fully appropriate to be on American currency, whereas Jackson was a scoundrel, a slave holder and a white supremacist who was involved in the removal of Indians and was completely opposed to paper money and was horrible to women,” said Kari Winter, director of the gender institute at the University at Buffalo. 
 
 Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, a fellow at the Brookings Institute, last year railed against the initial plan, saying he was “appalled” Hamilton would be yanked. 
 
 On Wednesday, he called the new plan “a good one,” noting that it fell in line with what he recommended. 
 
 “Tubman is an excellent and deserving choice, and no one has a better claim to be represented on the currency than Hamilton, who did so much to help establish the American economic system we know today,” he wrote in a blog post. 
 
 Bernanke also advised that Treasury, similar to the U.S. Postal Service, should redesign bills more frequently. “Occasional changes to bill design would give us more space and flexibility to honor the past; and, if done at reasonable intervals, could coincide with necessary security improvements as well,” he said. 
 
 Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen also commended the move. "Throughout American history, women have made important contributions to the free and democratic society we enjoy today," Yellen said in a statement. "I welcome the decision by the Treasury Department to honor these achievements. The Federal Reserve will work with Treasury on a design that also incorporates strong security features to protect worldwide users of U.S. currency." 
 
 White House deputy press secretary Jennifer Friedman said President Barack Obama was both pleased with Americans' enthusiasm around the whole process and the end result. "The President welcomes Secretary Lew's important announcement that our next currency will honor the contributions that women and civil rights leaders have made to our country, celebrate our democracy and reflect the rich history of the United States and the struggles for freedom and equal rights," Friedman said. 
 
 And it’s not just the faces that are changing on the bills. 
 
 U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios told reporters on the call that the new currency will include additional security features. “For the first time in our history, our currency will also include a new tech-help feature intended to aid the blind and the visually impaired,” Rios said. “This is a new, complex and critical, important element in the production of modern U.S. currency.” ||||| Eleanor Roosevelt. (Courtesy of Women on 20's) 
 
 The Senate will consider whether to support a campaign to put a woman on the $20 bill, after Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) introduced a measure that would require the Treasury to "convene a panel of citizens" to discuss the idea. 
 
 Shaheen announced the introduction of the bill Wednesday. "Our paper currency is an important part of our everyday lives and reflects our values, traditions and history as Americans,” she said in a statement. "It’s long overdue for that reflection to include the contributions of women. The incredible grassroots support for this idea shows that there’s strong support for a woman to be the new face of the $20 bill.” 
 
 If passed, the committee created by Shaheen's bill would then advise the Secretary of the Treasury on its findings. The senator's office said the bill is a "complement" to a grassroots campaign that raised the issue of women on currency earlier this year. 
 
 [This group wants to banish Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill] 
 
 The campaign, called "Women on 20's," has been asking supporters to vote for the woman they'd most like to see replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. From a list of 15 selected by the organization, the field has narrowed down to four finalists: Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks and Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation. 
 
 In all, the group says that more than 223,000 people voted in the final round, with more than 480,000 participants taking part in both rounds. 
 
 The original list of 15 included Rachel Carson, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Alice Paul (the full list is here). If the Treasury decided to consider the issue, Women on 20's is hoping that its selections -- and the votes from the campaign -- will be taken into consideration. 
 
 Sojourner Truth. (Women on 20's) 
 
 While the campaign helped spark a national discussion, only the Treasury can actually change whose face appears on the $20 bill. The campaign, executive director Susan Ades Stone explained to The Post, initially aimed to encourage the White House to ask the Treasury Department to consider the change. 
 
 Now, Ades Stone said in a statement, the group is aiming to collect enough votes to "make sure that the mandate is overwhelming" when the campaign is brought to President Obama. 
 
 For his part, Obama has been receptive to the idea. 
 
 "Last week, a young girl wrote to ask me why aren't there any women on our currency," the president said in a July speech in Kansas City. "And then she gave me like a long list of possible women to put on our dollar bills and quarters and stuff -- which I thought was a pretty good idea." 
 
 This, by the way, is the letter that inspired Obama to comment on the idea of putting a woman's portrait on American currency: 
 
 Sofia's letter to Obama, courtesy of Women on 20's 
 
 The author of the letter -- a 9-year-old by the name of Sofia -- wrote the president independently of Women on 20's, but she is now helping the organization's campaign. 
 
 [Why is Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill? The answer may be lost to history.] 
 
 The last time the Treasury Department made substantial changes to the portraits on U.S. paper money was in 1928, when Jackson earned his now-contested spot on the $20 bill. He replaced another former president, Grover Cleveland. 
 
 After it was introduced, Shaheen's bill was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. 
 
 [This post has been updated multiple times.] ||||| AWAITING TREASURY TIMELINE 
 
 Women on 20s supports the efforts of Senator Jeanne Shaheen to clarify the Department of Treasury’s timeline for issuing newly designed paper currency that will feature female American heroes, including the much-anticipated Harriet Tubman $20, which was slated for rollout by the mid-2020s. 
 
 As we have closely followed recent statements from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin indicating he has yet to focus his attention on the design, we also have kept our eyes and ears on what the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is saying about the process. We are encouraged that all indications are that the directives from previous treasury secretary, Jack Lew, are still being followed. But we, like Senator Shaheen, are concerned that the agency may not hit the target of revealing the actual bill designs in time to honor the centennial of women’s suffrage in 2020, and rollout of the bills into circulation a couple of years later, beginning with the $10, which would feature five suffragists on the reverse side of the Alexander Hamilton bill. 
 
 The previous administration had identified ways to both enhance the security of the new bills and accelerate production to enable more than one bill to be designed at a time and ensure that all of them would be in circulation well before 2030. 
 
 Millions of Americans from all walks of life and political persuasions participated in and supported the grass roots campaign Women On 20s initiated to have women represented on paper currency. Their voices were heard and now they deserve to know whether and when their wishes will be realized. 
 
 Bring Harriet Home 
 
 
 
 
 
 Here at Women On 20s we were thrilled to learn recently that a rare and valuable photographic portrait has been discovered picturing a young Harriet Tubman in her earliest years of freedom from slavery. And now, we are dedicated to helping bring this important image back to the place where it was taken in Auburn, New York, site of the Tubman Home, which President Obama designated a National Park in the closing days of his administration. We are proud to have been part of the historic campaign to bring Tubman, a great American hero, the recognition she deserves with her portrait appearing soon on a new $20 bill. And now we’re asking you, the people who made it happen, to give what you can to get Harriet Tubman off the auction block and home where she belongs. 
 
 Sparsely funded but with great hope and determination, the Tubman Home has launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise enough money to place the winning bid when the Young Harriet photograph is auctioned at the renowned Swann Galleries on March 30th. The valuable and rare image, taken at a time when Tubman was being hunted as a fugitive slave and desperate to keep her identity hidden, is expected to fetch between $20-$30,000 at auction. But our hope at Women On 20s is that the funds raised can be used to pre-empt the sale by auction by offering a fair price to Swann Galleries as the representative of the private owner. Any funds raised beyond a generous purchase price could be used to help the Tubman Home, with its severely limited staff and funding, curate its collection and bring its rich history to the public. 
 
 So we urge you to join us in keeping this piece of American history in the public domain by clicking on #BringHarrietHome and sharing this link with your family and friends. Together let’s make historic change, again. 
 
 THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE! 
 
 
 
 Look what we spotted at the U.S. Treasury Building during the Women's March in DC! This is change America believes in, President Trump. 
 
 Please share with pride. 
 
 #WhyWeMarch: We are marching to preserve freedom. 
 
 Women On 20s has, from its inception, been about equality, inclusion, recognition and respect for all women of all persuasions. So the Women’s March and all it represents, is a perfect opportunity for us to hoist the Tubman Twenty as a symbol of the freedom and equality we aspire to, and demand, as a people. Our small but powerful W20 movement, and the large grassroots Women’s March movement, should serve as a reminder to the new administration that the people who were targeted during the campaign – women, people of color, Muslims, LGBTQIA and people with disabilities – cannot and should not be disrespected, diminished or shunted aside. We hope our participation and solidarity with the marchers will help inspire the kind of historic change that is still needed to ensure that America continues to be a beacon of freedom for the free world and beyond. 
 
 TUBMAN ON THE WALL AND IN OUR WALLET 
 
 
 
 Mural by Artist, Naturel 
 
 More than ever, to help heal divisions in our country, we want to see the Tubman $20s, which even before they are issued speak powerfully to the values of inclusion and equality upon which this nation was founded. If current Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew can get the presses cranking sooner, as referenced in the following Time article, this important, long-needed modification to our all-male currency will be all the more secure from politically motivated changes that could be initiated by the new administration. 
 
 President-elect Trump said at the time of the announcement last April that replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 was "pure political correctness" and suggested putting Harriet Tubman on the $2 bill instead. Until his statement, there was widespread bipartisan embrace of this initiative, a rare display of unity both inside the Beltway and beyond. Any rollback of the Tubman 20 would be a slap in the face to women in particular, but also to the majority of Americans sampled in numerous national polls, who support the end of Andrew Jackson's reign on the $20 and his replacement with a symbol of freedom and inclusion, Harriet Tubman. 
 
 The President elect's chief of staff Reince Priebus reportedly joked recently that the President-elect might one day grace the $20 bill instead of Tubman. Thank goodness our Founding Fathers saw fit to rule that no living person could be featured in the portraits on our paper bills. The theory is they were trying to prevent any emperor from engaging in self aggrandisement, thus appearing without his or her clothes.Take note, Mr. Priebus. 
 
 Women on 20s reaction to Secretary Lew announcement 
 
 After more than a year of campaigning to convince the U.S. Treasury to replace the portrait of Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with the face of a female American hero, Women On 20s is ready to claim victory, but only if Secretary Lew commits to issuing the new $20 bill alongside the $10 by 2020. 
 
 Secretary Lew’s choice of the freed slave and freedom fighter Harriet Tubman to one day feature on the $20 note is an exciting one, especially given that she emerged as the choice of more than half a million voters in our online poll last Spring. Not only did she devote her life to racial equality, she fought for women’s rights alongside the nation’s leading suffragists. 
 
 We are gratified to have sparked a conversation about the symbols and historical figures that define us as a nation. But until Secretary Lew commits to inclusion of women in the portrait gallery of paper currency in the near future, we see work ahead. 
 
 “What was to be a celebration of female American heroes for our 100th anniversary of inclusion in the democracy cannot be postponed,” said Women On 20s Founder Barbara Ortiz Howard. “It’s time to get the party started honoring women on the new $10 and a new $20 in time for 2020.” 
 
 Women On 20s Executive Director Susan Ades Stone added, “We had been looking to this Treasury Secretary to put a woman front and center as soon as possible and powerfully inspire the quest for gender equality going forward. In recent days reliable sources were telling us we wouldn’t see the redesigned $20 until 2030. Assuming this is true, we see today’s announcement as only a vague commitment and a continuation of the now familiar message that women have to settle for less and wait for their fair share.” 
 
 Download the Press Release 
 
 IT’S UP TO YOU TO MAKE THIS SHOT COUNT 
 
 Sunday, April 17 -- We’d like to take credit for what seems like a great victory for our cause to get a woman on the $20 bill. But we’re not there quite yet. Two minor bills -- the $10 and the $5 -- with barely discernible images of women on their back sides, and the promise of replacing the slave trading, Indian killing Jackson with a woman on the $20 fifteen years down the road is not the suffrage centennial celebration we were looking for. This affront to Native and African Americans on our most visible and used bill simply cannot continue. What we do in the next 48 hours could make all the difference in the world. But we need your help to turn this into a momentous celebration. 
 
 We still have a chance to influence President Obama and Treasury Secretary Lew to fast-track the change to the $20 so women can at last have a bill all their own. And we will continue to apply pressure to get women better billing on the two bills that will come out first, the $10 and the $5. 
 
 Why are we insisting the Administration get this right and commit to it now? Because the nation – and young people most importantly – were promised that women would very soon get the real respect they are due. Fifteen years is not soon in anybody’s book. And the backs of two bills in the meantime will amount to an insult. Time to take the reins away from the men who are calling the shots in this influence game and give women a shot of their own. 
 
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 TREASURY ANNOUNCEMENT SET FOR NEXT WEEK. OUR PRESS RELEASE. 
 
 NEW YORK, April 15, 2016 -- Women On 20s has confirmed with reliable sources that Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew plans to announce next week his design for the new $10 bill. The decision, formulated last fall, is to keep Alexander Hamilton as the sole portrait on the front of the bill and place a scene depicting women on the back side. While sources say the $20 bill will be redesigned in the future, and could feature a woman’s portrait replacing Andrew Jackson, it could be 2030 before that bill would appear in circulation and no commitment will be made to bring it out sooner. 
 
 As the organization that started the national conversation early last year about the importance of elevating women to a place of honor in the all-male portrait gallery that is our paper currency, Women On 20s considers it deeply disturbing that Secretary Lew would renege on his public commitment to prominently feature a single woman on the next new bill. 
 
 It was particularly disingenuous for Lew to invite the public to participate in the redesign process and then completely disregard the overwhelming sentiment that it should be the $20 bill that gets the facelift by 2020 to celebrate women, displacing the disgraced Andrew Jackson and preserving the popular Hamilton on the $10. 
 
 Instead, by refusing to redesign the $10 and the $20 SIMULTANEOUSLY, Lew is sending a resounding message that women and their accomplishments are not worthy of equal representation. We hear you loud and clear, Secretary Lew: the back of the bill is not good enough for our male heroes, but it’s fine for women. 
 
 With this decision, Secretary Lew is proving, once again, that in America it’s still a man’s world. It was a chorus of mostly men who implored him to keep Hamilton on the $10, and he listened. But he was tone deaf to the second part of the message, which was to change the portrait on the $20 instead. What we’re left with is the same old, same old. 
 
 What is particularly alarming is: if we can’t get close to equal billing on something as simple as our currency, what hope is there for the bigger challenges ahead of equal pay or overall gender equality. 
 
 Hamilton may have thrown away his shot, Secretary Lew, but you’re about to throw away yours, too. With this decision, you’re teaching a generation of schoolchildren that women don’t have the same shot as men. Maybe when today’s grade schoolers get to college they’ll finally get to see a woman’s portrait on their money….if there is, indeed, any paper money in use by then. 
 
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 CELEBRATE OUR BIRTHDAY AND WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH BY SHARING OUR MESSAGE ON TWITTER AND FACEBOOK 
 
 To celebrate our one-year birthday, on March 1, 2016 we redoubled our efforts and launched a new social media strategy using the hashtags: #TheNew10, #TheNew20 and #DitchJackson, in tweets, posts and emails along with the special money changing graphic GIF seen above. We encourage you to keep the momentum going and continue to send this message out during Women’s History Month. With a united voice, we aim to send a strong message that a woman deserves to be on the $20 dollar bill. Find us on Twitter @WomenOn20s and Facebook where we hope you'll retweet our graphics & posts to help the message go viral! And don't worry, if you aren't on Twitter, we'll still help you get your voice heard all the way to the Treasury Department. Check the "Join In" tab in the navigation bar above for easy ways to write your senators and post a tweet. 
 
 IS TIME ON OUR SIDE? WE CERTAINLY HOPE SO 
 
 Today Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced he will delay his decision on the redesign of the $10 bill until 2016, after having earlier promised a decision by the end of this year. He says he needs more time to consider the input he's receiving from the public. Having started this national conversation with our campaign to have an iconic American woman replace the now infamous Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, we at Women On 20s are hopeful the Secretary will come around to adopting our idea of a women’s suffrage vignette on the opposite side of the Hamilton $10, while honoring a woman on the $20 bill, as petitioned by our 600,000 voters. Surely the Treasury can push for both by 2020. 
 
 In the months since we launched this effort on March 1, 2015, momentum has been building from statehouses to college campuses and beyond to change the way we remember our nation’s history. While we can’t erase the misdeeds and injustices perpetrated by some of the leaders we once revered, we can change the narrative we teach future generations in powerful ways. Our paper bills serve as pocket monuments – everyday reminders of who and what we value. It shouldn’t take decades to remove a slave trader and Indian oppressor from the ubiquitous $20 and replace him with the freed slave and freedom fighter, Harriet Tubman. If you agree, let Secretary Lew and President Obama know. Apparently they’re still listening. 
 
 OUR CONCEPT FOR THE “OTHER SIDE” OF THE NEW $20 
 
 Last July Women On 20s presented U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios with this artist’s rendering we commissioned as a concept for the opposite side of the $20 bill. It is a vignette picturing iconic figures who fought for women’s rights, leading to the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing women the right to vote. We later engaged the public in a contest to name the figures in the scene. The answers can be found under the Join In "The Other Side" tab above. How many can you identify? 
 
 Women On 20s: Continuing to Lead the Charge for the Twenty 
 
 Op Ed - August 26, 2015 
 
 A Woman’s Place Is On the $20: How Treasury Secretary Jack Lew Betrayed a Movement 
 
 By Susan Ades Stone & Barbara Ortiz Howard 
 
 Despite generations of inclusion in our democracy, women have a lot of catching up to do as of today, the 95th anniversary of the date we were at long last given the right to vote. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew had a golden opportunity to move things in the right direction for the 51% — by deciding finally to put an unsung female hero on our male-only paper currency. Unfortunately, he’s on the road to blowing it. 
 
 This is a national movement we’re proud to have inspired — holding an online poll that attracted more than 600,000 votes to replace Andrew Jackson on the widely used $20 bill. In a stroke of poetic justice, freed slave, freedom fighter and suffragist Harriet Tubman was the people’s choice to replace the slave-trading, Indian-killing seventh President. Schoolchildren pumped about being a part of historic change and minting some new role models were among the most enthusiastic participants in that campaign. 
 
 From the beginning, we were under the impression that it was the $20 bill that was next up for redesign; it said so on the Treasury Department’s own website. Overhauling that bill would have made perfect sense. For too long, with Jackson’s image spewing from every ATM, we’ve been sending the world the wrong message about what we value. 
 
 What’s more, the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage arrives in 2020, and issuing a new $20 bill in time to celebrate and value women’s contributions to our democracy would be natural. 
 
 Imagine our surprise and disappointment when in June, Lew revealed his plans — with barely a mention of our half-million-strong grass-roots campaign that had taken social and mainstream media by storm. He said the woman he chooses will go not on the $20 bill, but on the far less circulated $10 — and will somehow share that bill with its current occupant, the revered architect of our democracy and financial system, Alexander Hamilton. 
 
 By not evicting Jackson (who, ironically, despised paper money and Hamilton’s central banking system), diminishing Hamilton and giving women shared billing, Lew managed to please almost no one and offend many. By any calculus, half a ten hardly equals a twenty. Read the Full OpEd in the NY Daily News 
 
 #TheNew10 Spawns Controversy...and Levity 
 
 EDITORIAL - July 4, 2015: 
 
 Take Jackson Off the $20 Bill, Put a Woman in His Place 
 
 There is no question that the United States should put a woman on its paper currency. But the Treasury Department’s plan to put one on the $10 bill, which currently has the image of Alexander Hamilton, is the wrong way to do it..... .....A better idea is to remove Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill and replace him with a distinguished woman from American history. Jackson was a slave owner whose decisions annihilated American Indian tribes of the Southeast. He also hated paper currency and vetoed the reauthorization of the Second Bank of the United States, a predecessor of the Federal Reserve. Jackson is in the history books, but there’s no reason to keep him in our wallets. Read the full editorial in The New York Times 
 
 Where Women On 20s Stands Today 
 
 The last few months have been an incredible journey for Women On 20s and we are grateful for the tremendous public support our mission has gathered for ending the male monopoly on the national monument we know as our paper currency. 
 
 
 
 Together we have made an historic impact, bringing important dialogue about valuing the abilities and accomplishments of women to schools, dinner tables, legislative halls, social media forums and editorial outlets. It has been an unprecedented 4-month coast-to-coast conversation. More than a half million people cast votes, not for pop stars, but for historic women who deserve to be celebrated and held up as examples of what young girls can aspire to become – agents of great change who will be recognized and respected alongside influential men who move our country forward. 
 
 
 
 What began with one person’s dream to celebrate the 2020 centennial of women’s suffrage with a fitting tribute grew into a call for action that couldn’t be ignored. And on June 18th, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced a plan in the works to put a woman on the next bill up for redesign – the $10 note. 
 
 
 
 Frankly, the choice of the $10 and not the $20 was a surprise to us. We targeted the $20 because it is a ubiquitous bill bearing the image Andrew Jackson, known more today for his mistreatment of Native Americans, involvement in the slave trade and hatred of paper currency than any other aspect of his legacy. We had no desire to unseat the exemplary Alexander Hamilton, a visionary founding father who designed our monetary system. But we were just as surprised to learn along with the public that Hamilton would not be going away, he would just be sharing the bill with the first woman on paper money in well over a century. And while the new design would be unveiled in 2020, the actual bills would not be circulated for several more years after that. It seems as a nation we can do better job of celebrating women and their worth and do it in a timely way. 
 
 
 
 Since the announcement, we have been paying close attention to the public reaction and debate. We also have partaken in private briefings with the White House and U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios to learn more about the rationale for choosing the $10 and the seemingly overstretched timeline for its redesign. The answers, so far, have not convinced us that more cannot be done. While we are pleased that a woman will take her rightful place on the new $10 bill, the intentions for the more visible, more numerous and more internationally circulated $20 bill should be announced as well. And perhaps an interim portrait change can be fast tracked, even if a more comprehensive security redesign cannot happen for another decade. 
 
 Secretary Lew told a recent gathering at The Brookings Institution that his mind is made up about the $10, but it is his intention to stimulate national debate on the redesign. With all due respect, what is the point of debate if there's no room for a change of mind and direction? Nonetheless, we're taking up the challenge with some points and counterpoints you can find here on the $10 vs. the $20. 
 
 
 
 
 
 The Women On 20s Campaign History ||||| On Wednesday afternoon, Barbara Ortiz Howard, who owns an exterior-restoration business in Mount Vernon, New York, and Susan Ades Stone, a journalist and Howard’s friend, were asked to join a call with some government officials. In March, Howard and Ades Stone had started a campaign to demand that the U.S. government replace Andrew Jackson’s image on the twenty-dollar bill with a woman from history. Their goal was to have this happen by 2020, the centennial anniversary of women getting the right to vote. They invited people to vote for their favorite candidates on a Web site they set up, WomenOn20s.org, and the campaign went viral. I wrote about it, as did many others, including Gail Collins of the Times (“Finally, we’ve got a current event that’s not depressing”). Susan Sarandon and other celebrities lent their support, and more than five hundred thousand people voted. In May, Howard and Ades Stone announced the winner: Harriet Tubman. In the phone call, Rosie Rios, the United States Treasurer, and some White House officials wanted to inform them that the message had been received—sort of. 
 
 There would be a woman on a bill, they learned, but it might not end up being Tubman. The Treasury Secretary would make the final decision at a later point, based partly on public input. Also, the chosen female would be featured on the ten-dollar note, rather than on the twenty. And she wouldn’t exactly replace the man on that bill, Alexander Hamilton; instead, ten-dollar bills would feature both Hamilton and the woman. As for the 2020 deadline, the Treasury Department hoped to finalize the design by then, but it would take longer to get the bill into circulation. Treasury officials stopped short of crediting Women on 20s for spurring the decision, but they thanked Ades Stone and Howard for raising awareness. 
 
 Ades Stone told me over the phone that the phone call was the first she had heard of the Treasury Department’s plans. Last night, after getting off the phone with the Treasury Department, she and Howard headed to Washington, where Jack Lew, the Treasury Secretary, was to detail his plans in a press conference on Thursday afternoon. Ades Stone’s husband drove their car while she typed out a press release from the passenger’s seat. “When Secretary Lew makes his choice, we hope he will take into account that the winner of our online poll, Harriet Tubman, was the top vote-getter,” it read. 
 
 Ades Stone said that she considered the Treasury Department’s decision a success for her and Howard’s campaign. But she sounded a bit piqued, and when I pressed her she admitted that this wasn’t only because she hadn’t got much sleep. For a number of reasons, she and others weren’t altogether satisfied with the execution of the Treasury Department’s plans. Howard and Ades Stone had chosen the twenty-dollar bill in part because of Jackson’s poor reputation; he opposed central banking and was largely responsible for the expulsion of Native Americans from their homes. “We’ll still have to be looking at Andrew Jackson for quite a bit longer, and that’s a shame,” Ades Stone told me. 
 
 On the Facebook page for the Women on 20s campaign, some of the most-liked comments criticized the Treasury Department’s decision. “Women ask to be on the $20, so we get offered the $10,” one person wrote. “Never, never give a woman what she asks for.” Another commented, “Placing a woman on a bill with Alexander Hamilton makes the same sexist statement that our currency has made all along—that a woman cannot be independent or important without a man.” And, “A man gets ‘final say’ over which woman. This feels like a slap in the face.” 
 
 The Treasury Department said that it had good reasons for its approach. The ten-dollar bill was already in the process of being redesigned, in part to safeguard against security threats. And it is produced in relatively low numbers, which will make it easier to insure a smoother transition. (The Treasury Department makes minor changes to bills all the time, but it hasn’t changed a portrait on a bill since the nineteen-twenties.) The department also pointed out that it is trying to be more democratic than usual. While the Treasury Secretary has final say on banknote designs, and usually takes advice only from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, this time Lew and other officials plan to spend the summer holding public meetings to get citizens’ input. There’s even a hashtag, #TheNew10, and a Web site, thenewten.treasury.gov, where people are invited to share their ideas. Already, the Treasury Department’s own announcement has gone viral; as of early Thursday morning, it was a trending story on Facebook. 
 
 When I spoke to Ades Stone, she told me that she hadn’t seen the Treasury Department’s Web site yet. But, she said, Howard had checked it out and informed her that it looked awfully similar to WomenOn20s.org. “I do believe they took pages out of our playbook,” she said. I got the impression that she felt the Women on 20s campaign had been co-opted, and didn’t know how to feel about it. Standing in line at the White House, where she and Howard were supposed to meet with some officials, she sounded a bit out of her element. “Barbara, Barbara!” she called out. “I’m in the right line? I’m in the wrong line? Is this the line for appointments?” 
 
 A couple of hours later, Lew appeared at the scheduled press conference. “A woman is nowhere to be found on any of our seven paper bills,” he said. “That is wrong, and it needs to change.” He said he had many people to thank for their involvement in the decision, and named several institutions: the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, the Secret Service. He talked a bit more about the decision. Then, toward the end of his comments, he briefly mentioned the Women on 20s campaign. “We thank you for your passion and your citizenship,” he said. “Your campaign is exactly what democracy is about—making your voice heard.” ||||| Harriet Tubman, the anti-slavery campaigner, is set to appear on the front of the $20 bill, becoming the first woman to be the face of a bill of US currency. 
 
 The US Treasury Department announced the news on Wednesday after a long, public and sometimes heated consultation period. The Treasury had reportedly considered letting Tubman bump founding father Alexander Hamilton, who has been on the $10 bill since 1928. Instead, she will take Andrew Jackson’s spot on the $20 bill. 
 
 “When I announced last June that a newly redesigned $10 note would feature a woman, I hoped to encourage a national conversation about women in our democracy. The response has been powerful,” US Treasury secretary Jack Lew said in a statement. “The decision to put Harriet Tubman on the new $20 was driven by thousands of responses we received from Americans young and old.” 
 
 Details of the redesign of the three bills – $5, $10 and $20 – were announced in a Medium post written by Lew. 
 
 — Treasury Department (@USTreasury) The front of the new $20 will bear the portrait of Harriet Tubman, whose life was dedicated to fighting for liberty. pic.twitter.com/8lAEkoD78p 
 
 The Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen, said: “Throughout American history, women have made important contributions to the free and democratic society we enjoy today. I welcome the decision by the Treasury Department to honor these achievements.” 
 
 
 
 Jackson is not disappearing from the $20 bill altogether. “The reverse of the new $20 will continue to feature the White House as well as an image of President Andrew Jackson,” Lew added. 
 
 
 
 Even before the US Treasury decided to put Tubman on the $20, she had won the people’s vote. A year ago, the not-for-profit group Women on 20s held a vote to choose a woman who could replace Jackson. Tubman won with 118,328 votes, beating out a Native American tribe leader, Wilma Mankiller, the former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and the civil rights activist Rosa Parks. 
 
 Tubman, who was born into slavery, is best known for her role on the Underground Railroad. Making 19 trips over the course of 10 years, she helped free more than 300 slaves. She died in 1913, seven years before US women won the right to vote. 
 
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest American abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery by marrying a free man and led many other slaves to safety. Photograph: MPI/Getty Images 
 
 The $5 and $10 bills will also undergo some changes. 
 
 “When we started this conversation not quite a year ago, it wasn’t clear to me that millions of Americans were going to weigh in with their ideas,” Lew told CNBC. “We’re not just talking about one bill. We’re talking about the $5, the $10 and the $20. We’re not just talking about one picture on one bill. We’re talking about using the front and the back of the bill to tell an exciting set of stories.” 
 
 While the $5 bill will be changed to depict civil rights era leaders, the back of the $10 bill will now bear a mural-style depiction of the women’s suffrage movement. Originally, Lew hoped to replace Hamilton with Susan B Anthony, according to a memo obtained by the Wall Street Journal. Anthony will now appear on the back of the bill instead. Anthony previously appeared on a $1 coin. 
 
 First lady Martha Washington previously appeared on a special $1 certificate. The other woman to appear on a bill was Pocahontas, who appeared on the back of a $20 bill. Tubman will be the first woman to appear as the main figure on the front of a bill. 
 
 The Treasury hopes to unveil the newly redesigned bill by 2020, a year that will mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment, which granted women the right to vote. 
 
 All about the Hamiltons 
 
 Lew changed his mind after the initial plan to take Hamilton off the $10 bill met with public resistance. Among those objecting the removal of the first US treasury secretary was Lin-Manuel Miranda, the author and star of the Broadway musical Hamilton. 
 
 After Lew attended the show last summer, Miranda tweeted that he had made his case. The two met again in March. “You’re going to be very happy,” Miranda said Lew told him at the time. 
 
 Ben Bernanke, the former Federal Reserve chair, also voiced his displeasure with the idea of replacing Hamilton. 
 
 “Hamilton’s demotion is intended to make room to honor a deserving woman on the face of our currency. That’s a fine idea, but it shouldn’t come at Hamilton’s expense,” he wrote last year. ||||| Youtube/Women on 20s 
 
 Andrew Jackson's portrait has held its place on the $20 bill since Jackson replaced Grover Cleveland in 1928. For the organizers of Women on $20s, that's quite long enough. "A woman's place is on the money," the Women on $20s campaign says. The new group has come up with a list of 15 women it would like to see on the $20 bill instead, including Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt and Harriet Tubman. 
 
 Campaign organizers are targeting the 20 because 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. 
 
 An ice-covered statue of Andrew Jackson at Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty) 
 
 But there's another reason: Jackson's authorization and enforcement of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 -- which forced several Native American tribes to give up their land to white farmers and move to Oklahoma -- makes his continued presence on American currency controversial. Slate pitched the idea of doing away with the seventh U.S. president's face on the $20 bill last year, writing: "Andrew Jackson engineered a genocide. He shouldn’t be on our currency." 
 
 Jackson, Women on $20s executive director Susan Ades Stone said in a phone interview, also hated paper currency anyway - much favoring gold and silver. "The guy would be rolling in his grave to know that every day the ATM spits out bills with his face on it," he added. 
 
 The Women on $20s campaign aims to "literally raise the profile of a woman in a male-dominated field," the nonprofit's founder Barbara Ortiz Howard wrote on the site. Right now, the only woman on a currently circulating piece of U.S. currency is Sacagawea, on the dollar coin. 
 
 The U.S. Mint lists two other coins depicting women: Helen Keller is on the reverse side of the 2003 Alabama quarter, and Susan B. Anthony was on the dollar coin until 1981. 
 
 Organizers are asking visitors to vote for one of 15 women they've selected as possible candidates to replace Jackson in a survey that is also doubling as a petition. The group hopes to collect enough signatures - about 100,000 - to justify sending a petition to the White House on the issue, asking the president to recommend the change to the Treasury. Stone said that the group collected about 8,000 votes in the past 60 hours. 
 
 "The goal is to get it done, but it's not only about that. It's about raising awareness and making sure people get to know these women," Stone added. The group envisions the campaign lasting through March, which is Women's History Month. 
 
 But, Stone added, "If President Obama says tomorrow that he wants to do this, we're not gonna say no." 
 
 Although the new campaign still seems a longshot, a similar petition also prompted Britain to announce in 2013 that it would put Jane Austen on the 10-pound note. 
 
 An amazing lady whose impact is still felt today through @RedCross. Should our next $20 bill star Clara Barton? pic.twitter.com/ph3ukdLEXe — Women On 20s (@WomenOn20s) February 18, 2015 
 
 As Buzzfeed's write-up notes, Obama has generally supported the idea of putting a woman on currency. "Last week, a young girl wrote to ask me why aren’t there any women on our currency," the president said in a July speech in Kansas City. "And then she gave me like a long list of possible women to put on our dollar bills and quarters and stuff -- which I thought was a pretty good idea." 
 
 The organization whittled down a list of finalists based on two main criteria - the individual's impact on society, and the difficulty they faced in doing so, Stone said. 
 
 Here are the 15 choices of Women on $20s, which Stone hopes will, as a group, "tell a great American story of women not only helping other women but helping to improve the lives of all Americans despite facing enormous obstacles along the way:" 
 
 Clara Barton‎, the founder of the American Red Cross 
 
 Margaret Sanger‎, who opened the first birth control clinic in the US. 
 
 Rachel Carson‎, a marine biologist who wrote the hugely influential environmental book Silent Spring 
 
 Rosa Parks‎, the iconic civil rights activist 
 
 Harriet Tubman‎, the abolitionist activist famed for her journeys on the underground railroad 
 
 Barbara Jordan‎, a politician who was the first black woman in the south to be elected to the House of Representatives 
 
 Betty Friedan‎, feminist author of the Feminine Mystique 
 
 Frances Perkins‎, the Secretary of Labor under FDR, who was the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet 
 
 Susan B. Anthony‎, women's suffrage movement leader 
 
 Shirley Chisholm‎, the first African-American woman elected to Congress 
 
 Elizabeth Cady Stanton‎, early women's rights activist and abolitionist 
 
 Eleanor Roosevelt‎, human rights activist and former first Lady 
 
 Sojourner Truth‎, African American women's rights activist and abolitionist 
 
 Patsy Mink, the first woman of color elected to the House, and the first Asian American elected to Congress 
 
 Alice Paul‎, women's suffrage movement leader 
 
 At least one of those choices is already rather controversial, as noted by Breitbart, whose headline about the campaign reads: "NEW GROUP WANTS TO PUT PLANNED PARENTHOOD FOUNDER MARGARET SANGER ON THE $20 BILL." 
 
 “No woman can call herself free who cannot own and control her body.” - Margaret Sanger #quoteoftheday. Learn more at http://t.co/e9HPT6y21c — Women On 20s (@WomenOn20s) February 20, 2015 
 
 So far, Stone said that the group has been "sort of surprised at the lack of opposition" to the campaign, and that at the very least she hopes it will "get this conversation going." She added, "we wanna be the hashtag that says #sorryAndrew." 
 
 [This post has been updated] ||||| The bill design proposed by the Women on $20s campaign. (Photo: Women on $20s) 
 
 WASHINGTON — Women's rights groups, Internet activists and members of Congress wanted a woman to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill — preferably by Harriet Tubman. 
 
 What they got was not quite what they wanted, but no less historic: A yet-to-be-named woman will appear on the $10 bill — not in place of Alexander Hamilton but perhaps beside him. 
 
 That's progress, said the Women on 20s campaign, an online activist group that sprung up last year. But it's "not perfect." 
 
 "We would love to see a woman not have to share her glory, and her opportunity to be recognized and honored," said Susan Ades Stone, the executive director of the campaign. "And Alexander Hamilton is not someone that people have a problem with." 
 
 President Andrew Jackson, whose portrait is on the $20 bill, is another matter. While Hamilton, the first secretary of the Treasury, built the national banking system, Jackson tried to tear it down. And his record on slavery and treatment of American Indians offends some modern sensibilities. 
 
 And then there's this: the $20 bill is more visible than the $10 bill. As of 2014, there were more than 8.1 billion $20 bills in circulation, compared to 1.9 $10 bills. Of the denominations under $500, only the $50 and the $2 bills circulate less. 
 
 In a speech at the National Archives on Thursday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew explained that the $10 bill was next in line to be upgraded. 
 
 "With the new $10 note, we are kicking off a whole new generation of currency," he said. 
 
 The decision to put a woman on the $10 bill is up to Lew, and even President Obama will defer to him. 
 
 "This will ultimately be Secretary Lew's decision, but we do expect a lot of public engagement on this over the next while," said Eric Schultz, White House deputy press secretary. 
 
 In the first 24 hours since the news broke, more than 130,000 people have weighed in using the #thenew10 hashtag on Twitter, according to the social media platform. 
 
 The Treasury Department will get input about the new design this summer and hopes to have it completed by 2020. Even after that, it could take years to put the new bills into circulation. 
 
 Lew's plan does not need congressional approval. The coinage clause of the constitution gives Congress exclusive power over the design of coins, but Congress has delegated design decisions regarding paper currency to the treasury secretary, with two limits: George Washington must appear on the $1 bill, and no bill can feature a living person. 
 
 Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, sponsored the Woman on the Twenty Act in April to require the Treasury Department to convene an advisory panel to suggest suitable women. 
 
 "Whether it is a $20 dollar bill or a $10 dollar bill, I am glad that the administration and Congress are working to bring gender equality to all areas of American life," Beatty said. 
 
 Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said he looked forward to hearing more about Lew's plan but also used the opportunity to make a broader point. 
 
 "By running up the national debt to more than $18 trillion, the administration's spending policies put these dollars at risk of being worth less, no matter whose face is on them," he said. 
 
 Follow Gregory Korte on Twitter @gregorykorte. 
 
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– After more than a century without any women on American paper money, there will soon be at least eight to choose from. The Treasury unveiled its plans for the new $20, $10, and $5 bills Wednesday, revealing that in addition to Harriet Tubman replacing Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20, suffragette and antislavery figures Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Paul will be on the new $10, which will keep Alexander Hamilton on the front. The new $5 will feature Marian Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt on the back, as well as Martin Luther King Jr. A roundup of coverage: Andrew Jackson will be moving to the back of the $20, but a lot of people want him gone altogether, reports NBC News, which notes that for some, replacing the slave-holding Jackson with a former slave is "perfect historical payback." The Wall Street Journal contrasts the life stories of Tubman and Jackson, who fought to kill off the predecessor to the Federal Reserve. The New York Times recaps the stories of all the new faces coming to US currency, including Sojourner Truth, who was best known for her 1851 "Ain't I a Woman" address. CNN reports that Ben Carson has called for keeping Jackson where he is on the $20 and putting Tubman on the $2 bill instead. He didn't say what he wants to do with Thomas Jefferson, who's currently on the little-used bill. At the Washington Post, Philip Kennicott argues that the $20 should feature not the "primly dressed" and "grandmotherly" woman most images of Tubman depict, but the "ferociously brave and determined woman" depicted holding a gun in what was a "shockingly confrontational image" at the time. Change for the $20 will take time: The redesigns won't be unveiled until 2020, the Guardian reports. In a Medium post, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew explains the changes and why Tubman was chosen for the $20.