RadioOnFire.com - Maryland-born abolitionist Harriet Tubman will take President Andrew Jackson's place on the $20 bill, becoming the first woman on American paper currency, Politico reports.
Sources tell Politico Treasury Secretary Jack Lew plans to announce the change Tuesday afternoon.
Tubman was born a slave in the 1820s in Dorchester County, but escaped in 1849 and became a key figure in both the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. She helped lead more than 70 slaves to freedom. Today, sites near her native Cambridge are a national park.
In addition to Tubman, the $5 bill will be changed to honor other civil rights leaders.
Initially, a woman was slated to take the place of the nation's first Treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton, on the $10 bill, but both renewed interest in Hamilton and Jackson's own controversial history perhaps played into the move.
For his part, Lin-Manuel Miranda, the newly-minted Pulitzer winner for his smash-hit musical "Hamilton," expressed his wishes to Lew last month, NBC reported at the time.
I talked to @USTreasury about this on Monday. Sec. Lew told me "you're going to be very happy." #wegetthejobdone https://t.co/ZkLFuSmz8M— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) March 16, 2016
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