Seems like a given it will be a black lady. Simply because it fills two minority slots on one 10 dollar bill. Only ones I can think of is Harriet Tubman or Rosa Parks.
Tubman deserves it more because of her working rescuing slaves using the Underground Railroad. She worked for women’s suffrage too.
Rosa Parks took a stand to end segregation. Risking a short jail sentence. An important contribution, but what Tubman did put her life in real danger. She would have been executed immediately if caught spying for the Union during the Civil War. Death was the usual punishment for any spy.
Both could easily end up on our currency someday. Seems like a no brainer that Tubman will be on the $10. I bet they are etching the metal plates already.
Yeah, that’s the only reason a black woman would ever appear on US currency. Not because any have ever made a significant impact in our history or anything. :rolleyes:
That got you so spitting mad that you couldn’t be bothered to read the rest of my post, right?
But, until you asked, I hadn’t realized that that issue wasn’t one of my top contenders (and that’s from the granddaughter of a woman who worked with Carrie Chapman Catt).
Yeah, a biggie, but not up there with kicking out our colonial overlords or preserving the Union/freeing the slaves.
Loathed as he is by contemporary standards, what got Jackson his slot in the line-up was “Jacksonian democracy” – the shift of power from the elites to the general population. That was seismic; extending the franchise deeper into the general population was a mopping-up operation compared to it.
yes a lady will be on the $10 bill. Since no black figure is represented on any American currency, its expected by many to be a black person. We should have corrected this injustice decades ago.
Google Harriet Tubman. You will see a lot of discussion about her for the $10. Huffington Post, CNN and others.
1- (Historically) Block women from being able to fully participate in society or wield power/influence,
2- When some women bust their asses and risk anything from their social standing to their lives and actually achieve something of worth, claim the credit as often as you can and demote the woman to an assistant after the fact. Or minimize the impact/importance of their achievement.
3- Bemoan how women just haven’t done many important things and that’s just how it is. What can you do?
I read your post. You proposed a fake woman, who inherently has done even less for the country. And she doesn’t seem to have been a symbol for anything important, since she’s very much not the Statue of Liberty.
Yes, maybe voting rights for women is not quite as important as the two things you mentioned, founding our country and freeing the slaves. But those aren’t the only reasons to be put on money.
In every history book I’ve ever seen, the big three are “freeing the colonies,” “freeing the slaves,” followed by “emancipating women.” So anyone not part of those is less than that. So they are better than McKinley, Cleveland, Madison, and, yes, even Jackson. Hamilton and Franklin are debatable–founding fathers, yes, but in a more ancillary role. But since you discount Truth and Tubman for their ancillary roles in freeing the slaves, I guess those shouldn’t count, either.
And that’s not considering coins, where we have Kennedy, Sacajawea and FDR. In fact, still currently in circulation is the dollar with Susan B. Anthony–big in the women’s rights movements.
No, I had never heard of Sojourner Truth before this thread. thank you for the heads up.
They’ll look at all the historical black, females for a good candidate. They have to check backgrounds carefully. Make sure there are no skeletons the internet sleuths can unearth. It would be terrible to tarnish the reputation of a venerated historical figure by carelessly exposing them to this level of public scrutiny.
Hamilton does not deserve the boot. Jackson most definitely does. I don’t care if the logistics for whatever reason mean that only the $10 can be done in time for some observance, better to miss it and get that miserable man off the $20.
Both she and Elinor Ostrom died in 2012. The post office has (or had; they may have changed it) a rule that a person needs to be dead for ten years before being considered for portrayal on a stamp. I think that’s probably a good rule to follow here. And given how extraordinary it is to put a woman on currency, perhaps we should only look at women who have been dead for fifty or a hundred years.
