There's A New Campaign To Get A Woman On The $20 Bill

“A woman’s place is on the money,” the nonprofit Women on $20s says.

A nonprofit is campaigning for Andrew Jackson to lose his spot on the $20 bill and be replaced with a less controversial female historical figure.

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U.S. money highlights the achievements of former presidents and founding fathers, which leaves no room for honoring women, aside from Susan B. Anthony on the rare dollar coin.

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So Barbara Ortiz Howard founded the nonprofit Women On $20s, with the goal of putting a woman on the $20 bill by 2020, the centennial anniversary of women's suffrage.

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"Our hope is that through this process we expose as many people as possible of all ages and of all political and socioeconomic persuasions to really look at women's contributions in history," executive director Susan Ades Stone told BuzzFeed News.

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