Harriet Tubman from 'Famous People: Selected Portraits From the Collections of the Library of Congress.'
Former slave and abolitionist Harriet Tubman will be the face of the new $20 bill, the Treasury Department announced on Wednesday, making her the first African American featured paper currency and the first woman in over a century.
The original plan had been to replace the face of the $10 bill which features one of the founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton. However, it has been decided that he will remain on the front of the $10 bill with the addition of an image of five women's suffragists, including Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Alice Paul.
Additionally, the $5, $10, and $20 bill will all undergo changes to add civil rights leaders and women, the designs to be unveiled in 2020 which marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.
On the back of the $5 bill, the image of the Lincoln Memorial will include depictions of historical events, including opera singer Marian Anderson's concert in 1939 and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.
Andrew Jackson will remain on the $20 bill, but will be relocated to the back.
