Harriet Tubman Anti-slavery activist to grace $20 note - first woman in 100 years

The United States is set to put Harriet
Tubman, an anti-slavery hero, on the $20
note,
making her the first woman on US
paper currency in 100 years.
New York Times reports that Tubman will replace
the face of Andrew Jackson, the US seventh
president.
According to report, US Treasury Department is
expected to announce the development on
Wednesday, April 20, 2016.
A Treasury official reportedly said that
Alexander Hamilton will remain on the face of
the $10 bill.
Report said the new currency designs would
also include other depictions of women and civil
rights leaders.
The development follows a public campaign and
months of deliberations by the Barrack Obama
administration.
Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman was an
African-American abolitionist, humanitarian. She
escaped slavery and subsequently made some
thirteen missions to rescue approximately
seventy enslaved families and friends, using the
network of antislavery activists and secret safe
houses known as the Underground Railroad .
She was an active participant in the struggle for
women's suffrage in the post-war era.
She died on March 10, 1913 in Auburn, New
York.