{"id":14194,"date":"2016-04-21T14:51:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T14:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14194"},"modified":"2016-04-21T14:51:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T14:51:08","slug":"tubman-is-a-suitable-symbol-on-the-20-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14194","title":{"rendered":"Tubman is a suitable symbol on the $20 bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/la-ed-tubman-20160420.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14195\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/la-ed-tubman-20160420-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"la-ed-tubman-20160420\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/la-ed-tubman-20160420-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/la-ed-tubman-20160420.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Move over, Old Hickory.<\/p>\n<p>Harriet Tubman is going to become the well-deserved face on one U.S. currency bill.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that former President Andrew Jackson wasn&#8217;t a consequential man during his two terms in the White House. He does, however, have a checkered history. Yes he was a war hero.<\/p>\n<p>However, the\u00a0Trail of Tears got its name for good reason. Jackson was responsible for driving Native Americans from their land, causing the deaths of countless numbers of Cherokee citizens. Is that a legacy to make one proud? No.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-harriet-tubman-20-bill-20160420-story.html\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-harriet-tubman-20-bill-20160420-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tubman&#8217;s contribution is quite different. She was a leader in the Underground Railroad that helped lead enslaved Americans to freedom. She was a tireless fighter for African-Americans&#8217; rights at a time when such advocacy put its champions &#8212; such as Tubman &#8212; at enormous risk of death.<\/p>\n<p>Old Hickory will be continue to have his face on the back of the $20 bill. Tubman, though, is going to be on he front side.<\/p>\n<p>In a related matter, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew also announced that one of his predecessors, Andrew Hamilton, will remain on the $10 bill. Good call there.<\/p>\n<p>As for the $5 bill, do not even <em>think<\/em> about replacing Honest Abe Lincoln with anyone else. My goodness, the 16th president&#8217;s face is carved into\u00a0Mount Rushmore.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move over, Old Hickory. Harriet Tubman is going to become the well-deserved face on one U.S. currency bill. It&#8217;s not that former President Andrew Jackson wasn&#8217;t a consequential man during his two terms in the White House. He does, however, have a checkered history. Yes he was a war hero. However, the\u00a0Trail of Tears got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tubman is a suitable symbol on the $20 bill<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[6151,6152,6150,2386,6153,6155,6154],"class_list":["post-14194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-national-news","tag-andrew-hamilton","tag-andrew-jackson","tag-harriet-tubman","tag-jack-lew","tag-old-hickory","tag-trail-of-tears","tag-underground-railroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14196,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14194\/revisions\/14196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}