Joe Biden, President of the United States, Joe Biden, wants the figure of African-American slave and abolitionist Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) to appear on 20-dollar bills, informs this Monday at the White House.
“The Department of Treasury is adopting the steps to renew the efforts to give Harriet Tubman a handful of new $ 20 tickets,” said Casa Blanca spokeswoman Jen Psaki in a press release.
“It’s important that our tickets, our money … -siguió-, reflect the history and diversity of our country, and the image of Harriet Tubman in our new 20-dollar tickets will certainly reflect this”.
The initiative to put Tubman on the tickets launched by the Barack Obama Administration (2009-2017), of which Biden was vice president.
Trump’s Governor inherited this decision, which implied the elimination of $ 20 bills from the figure of EE.UU’s president, Andrew Jackson (1829-1837), who had two slaves and had been abducted on occasion by the Republican amendment .
Hecho, Trump is publicly opposed to replacing Jackson’s image of Tubman, who is a slave nation and who, despite his fugitive, is famous for his job of liberating other African Americans.
However, the Obama administration has determined that Tubman will begin issuing $ 20 bills from 2020, the Trump Treasury Department announced on Thursday that its new monetary policy will be available by 2028.
Tubman’s appearance on the ticket tenders a symbolic value for many stadiums, because it implies replacing a pair of slaves -Jackson- with a abolitionist who participated in a clandestine red for sacrificing the country in decades of blackness.
Tubman series, in addition, is the first female and the first African-American to have an appearance in the paper of the United States, where now there are white men who are designing an important paper in the more political history of the United States.