Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has announced that he has directed Bureau of Engraving and Printing to accelerate plans for the redesign of the $20 to include Harriet Tubman. There a large issue with this plan, and that is that Harriet Tubman, a woman who worked in the slavery abolition movement, will be featured on the same bill as Andrew Jackson, a man who owned slaves and forced an entire race of people to be evacuated from their homes, and even disputed the use of paper money in America. If we are to acknowledge the astounding efforts and accomplishments of Mrs. Tubman, we must not also endorse President Jackson, her ideological opposite, by giving them both the same honor and regard of being featured on the same bill. Andrew Jackson cannot be featured on the same bill as Harriet Tubman.



