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Replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Created by M.R. on June 15, 2014

The United States government has – as per tradition – not given an explanation for why the seventh President, Andrew Jackson, is on the $20 bill. Jackson lead crusades to remove and exterminate Native Americans, also vehemently opposing paper money, as well as any sort of National Bank. If we were to reevaluate all of paper money's figureheads, Jackson would not even make the list. The historic figures on our existing Federal Reserve notes have not changed since 1928, and the $20 bill deserves a recognition of the strides towards better human rights the United States has taken in this past century. Those strides were largely led by Martin Luther King, Jr. – a man who could provide our money with not only a representative diversity, but a demonstration of recent improvements in our nation.

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