$ 20 bill with black women

- The United States put the image of Harriet Tubman, one of the main opponents of slavery, on the ticket of $ 20. That Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced Wednesday. The current 'face' of the note, former President Andrew Jackson, but remains on the back.

The call for a woman on the US bills sounds longer. Lew held to pick Alexander Hamilton on the 10 dollar bill, but that came last year on strong opposition. Hamilton was instrumental in setting up the Ministry of Finance and the entire financial system. Furthermore, walking on a wildly popular Broadway musical about the ex-president.

It takes a while before Americans can deal with the new bill. In 2020, a series of designs presented, including that of Tubman.

By the replacement of Jackson protested was considerably less. The president was closely involved in the deportation of large numbers of indigenous inhabitants of the continent. The tour, known as The Trail of Tears, took thousands of Indian life.

Tubman was born into slavery in 1822 in the state of Maryland. In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, where black Americans could be free. In the following years she returned secretly returned to Maryland to rescue other slaves.

Tubman was eventually involved in the liberation of hundreds of slaves before and during the Civil War. After the war she continued also in the women's suffrage. Tubman died in 1913, at the age of 91.