Female activist Harriet Tubman gained more than 118,000 votes to become the face of 20-dollar banknotes, defeating former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
Harriet Tubman, a black woman and a runaway slave who led thousands of other slaves reach freedom before the Civil War, is likely to be a new face on the banknotes of $20.
More than 600 thousand people participated in an online selection to find female performers featured in a 20-dollar banknotes, replacing the 7th president of the United States, Andrew Jackson.
The election marks the 100th anniversary of the formal ratification of the constitutional amendment that gave women right to vote. Although only the US Treasury Secretary who can authorize the redesign of currency, a number of the bill also proposed to Congress to put a picture of a woman on the banknote.
Tubman helping blacks escape from the places of their detention in the southern US plantations by means of what is called the Underground Railroad - not a subway line actually, but a secret network that created a group of people who tried to remove the practice of slavery.
Tubman gained more than 118,000 votes to become the face of 20-dollar banknotes, defeating former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and the hero of civil rights in the 1950s Rosa Parks, and Wilma Mankiller, a citizen of Native American ancestry and the first female leader of the Cherokee tribe.
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