4 Finalists Named in Group's Campaign to Put Woman on $20 Bill

Rosa Parks, whose refusal to surrender her seat on the bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, AL, earned her the title as the “mother of the civil rights movement,” is one of the finalists in a campaign to put the face of a woman on the $20 bill.

Parks, who moved to Detroit in 1957 after her activism caused her to be fired from her job, joins three other finalists: abolitionist Harriet Tubman, human rights advocate and former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Cherokee nation chief Wilma Mankiller, the Detroit Free Press said.

They were selected from 15 semi-finalists in grassroots voting sponsored by Women On 20s, a group that wants to convince the U.S. Treasury Department to replace the face of Andrew Jackson, the seventh U.S. president, on the $20 bill.

The $20 bill was selected because 2020 is the 100th anniversary of passage of the 19th Amendment that granted women the right to vote.

“There are so few reminders in our everyday lives of great women who’ve contributed to the shaping of our nation,” said Susan Ades Stone, executive director of Women on 20s. “It’s time to correct that and putting a woman on a $20 is like having a little pocket monument.”

The first round of balliting took place in March – Women’s History Month – and continues at womenon20s.org for the next few weeks. A definitive date to end the campaign hasn’t been set.

The group’s slogan is “A Woman’s Place is On the Money.”

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