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Harriet Tubman isn’t the only African-American or woman to get historic face time on U.S. currency.

 In addition to Tubman landing the $20 bill, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew also announced today that Sojourner Truth, Marian Anderson andDr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be added to bills as well.

The back of the new $10 bill (with Alexander Hamilton still on the front) will include an image of the historic march for suffrage that ended on the steps of the Treasury Department and honor the leaders of the suffrage movement—Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Paul

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source: BlackAmericaWeb.com

The Retweet Harriet Tubman

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