Your Choice Is?

Your Choice Is? July 1, 2015

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In a speech last year in Kansas City, President Barack Obama said he received a letter from a nine-year-old girl that included a list of possible women to put on America’s paper bills and coins, “which I thought was a pretty good idea.” This March, Barbara Ortiz Howard and Susan Ades Stone started a campaign called Women on 20s to demand that the government replace former President Andrew Jackson’s image on the $20 bill with a woman from history.

Now, the Obama administration is following through, although not in the way that the two women and the many followers they galvanized had hoped. Last week, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced that in 2020 — the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote — a woman will appear on the $10 note, not the $20 bill….

1. Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906). 

2. Harriet Tubman (1822-1913).

3. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902). 

4. Florence Kelley (1859-1932).

5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935).

6. Jane Addams (1860-1935). 

7. Ida B. Wells (1862-1931).

8. Alice Hamilton (1869-1970). 

9. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966). 

10. Helen Keller (1880-1968).

11. Frances Perkins (1880-1965).

12. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962).

13. Alice Paul (1885 – 1977). 

14. Dorothy Day (1897-1980). 

15. Margaret Mead (1901-1978).

16. Ella Baker (1903-1986).

17. Rachel Carson (1907-1964). 

18. Rosa Parks (1913-2005).

19. Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977). 

20. Betty Friedan (1921-2006).


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