IRONIC: Group pushes to get woman's face on 20 dollar bill
buzzz worthy. . .#w20 By Mona Austin To commemorate the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage (or the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote) an activist group has launched a campaign to replace Andrew Jackson's face on the 20 dollar bill with the face of a woman by 2020. The group has recommended 15 women in history as possible candidates like slave emancipator Harriett Tubman, suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Founder of the Red Cross Clara Barton, and abolitionist Sojourner Truth. Susan B. Anthony was on American one dollar gold coin so long ago that most people forgot. That coin went out of production. Their goal is to get President Obama's attention. The campaign has gone viral with 80,000 signatures. If they reach 100,000 signatures the White House must respond. Why do they want to use the $20 bill as opposed to the $100 bill? Because it is the most commonly used bill. The second and more pronounced r...