Biden Looks to Expedite Putting Harriet Tubman on $20 Bill

[Ross7]

If they're gonna do it this wouldn't be the worst design, despite the trigger finger.

 

[polebarn]

I think the lgbqtai+++ folks should pic the person for the $2 Bill. Also have one denomination for Women, Blacks, Indigenous Americans, Hispanics, Pacific Islanders, Generic Immigrants. No white privileged heterosexual males or Republicans allowed. Gov would need to bring back the $500 Bill to have enough platforms to add climate change or tree huggers. Seems a lot simpler to replace them all with animals/fish and stop all the whinning about "me too and he was a bad person 200 years ago" bullshit. How about we do it like statues and monuments because that's basically the memorializing desired: Groups that support it can raise the funds necessary to pay for it. NO BLOOMBURG, you can't buy your own place on currency: it's against the law to put the image of a living person on U.S. Currency.

That would be the $3 bill, not the $2.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

I say we put Trump on it!!! Yeah!!!

 

[FrommerStop]

If they're gonna do it this wouldn't be the worst design, despite the trigger finger.

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I would be happy just to have a .36 Navy Colt or Remington on the the twenty. The gun industry helped build an industrial America.

 

[FrommerStop]

Maybe they will use a image like this! They made up Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea images in the past for coins. I really don't care what image is on the $20, I only worry if it will be worth anything.

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That's not actually Tubman, no photo exists of her carrying arms, but the documentation of her doing so exits as does her pistol an short sword.

It is actually Mary Fields

Meet “Stagecoach” Mary Fields (1832-1914), the first African American mail carrier (male or female) in the United States


Mary Fields began her life as a slave in Tennessee in 1832, the exact date is unknown. Mary’s mother Susanna was the personal servant to the plantation owner’s wife, Mrs. Dunnes. The plantation wife also had a daughter who was born within two weeks of Mary, and named Dolly. Mrs. Dunne allowed the children to play together. Over the years Mary was taught to read and write and the two girls became best friends. At sixteen, Dolly was sent to boarding school in Ohio and Mary was left all alone.


Mary’s father worked in the fields on the Dunnes’ farm. He was sold after Mary was born. Mary’s mother wanted her daughter to have a last name, so since her father Buck worked in the fields, her mother decided her last name should be Fields. So thus Mary Fields came to be. After Mary’s mother passed away, Mary became the head of the household at the young age of fourteen.


After Dolly went away to boarding school, The Civil War began. The slaves were left to fend for themselves. It was during this time that she learned many life survival skills. She learned how to garden, raise chickens and practice medicine with natural herbs.


Around the age of 30 Mary heard from her dear friend Dolly. Dolly was now a nun and was renamed Sister Amadaus. The Sister asked Mary to join her at a convent in Ohio. Mary immediately began her twenty-day trip from Tennessee to Ohio. Mary remained with the Ursuline Sisters for many years – even when Dolly relocated to the St. Peter’s Mission in Montana. Mary never married and she had no children. The nuns were her family. She protected the nuns.


Mary wanted to follow her friend to Montana, but was told it was too remote and rustic. However, that all changed when Mother Amadaus became ill with pneumonia and wrote to Mary asking for her support and healing. Mary wasted no time and departed for Montana by stagecoach in 1885. At 53 years old Mary started her new life in Montana. Mary helped nurse Mother Amadaus back to health. The sisters were all in amazement of this tough black woman. Mary was no stranger to rolling a cigar, shooting guns and drinking whiskey. She grew fresh vegetables that were enjoyed by the Sisters and the surrounding community. Mary was forced to leave her beloved mission and the Sisters after a shooting incident. Mary shot in self-defense, and was found innocent, but had to find a new home.


Wells Fargo had the mail contract during that time and was looking for someone for the Great Falls to Fort Benton route to deliver the U.S. Mail. It was a rough and rugged route and would require a person of strong will and great survival skills to maneuver the snowy roads and high winds. Mary immediately applied at the ripe age of 60 years old. It was rumored that she could hitch a team of horses faster than the boys half her age and due to her toughness, she was hired! Mary became the first African American mail carrier in the United States and the second woman. Mary was proud of the fact that her stage was never held up. Mary and her mule Moses, never missed a day and it was during this time that she earned the nickname of “Stagecoach,” for her unfailing reliability.


The townspeople adopted Mary as one of their own. They celebrated her birthday twice a year since she didn’t know the exact date of her real birthday. Mary Fields was known as Black Mary and Stagecoach Mary. She was considered an eccentric even in these modern times. She was six feet tall and over 200 pounds. By the time she was well known in Central Montana, she had a pet eagle, a penchant for whiskey, baseball (which was a new sport at the time) and a heart as big as the gun she was famous for carrying. Mary wore a buffalo skin dress that she made herself – you might say she drew attention wherever she went – even in a small western pioneer town. Mary was a local celebrity and her legend and tales of her adventures were known by surrounding communities and neighboring states.


Gary Cooper (the actor) had his mail delivered by Mary as a young boy in Cascade County. As an adult, Cooper wrote an article about her for Ebony Magazine in 1955 in which he wrote, “Born a slave somewhere in Tennessee, Mary lived to become one of the freest souls ever to draw a breath, or a .38.” He also wrote of her kindness and his admiration for her. The famous western artists Charlie Russell drew a sketch of her. It was a pen and ink sketch of a mule kicking over a basket of eggs with Mary looking none to happy.


Mary retired her post in 1901 and passed away in 1914. She is buried at Highland Cemetery at St. Peter’s Mission. Her grave is marked with a simple cross.

All I can say she was quite an american.

 

[maxfold]

It is actually Mary Fields

All I can say she was quite an american.

Long as it’s not Ann Margaret’s body with Oprah’s Head like that fashion shoot picture , Talk about Culture ! Asking for a Friend .