The image of Harriet Tubman, a black woman who fought for women’s equality and against slavery, will appear on $20 bill, announced the US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew in his open letter, Lenta reports. According to him, Tubman’s image will be featuring on the front of the new bill. On the reverse side of the bill there will be still featuring the White House and the image of the President Andrew Jackson.

The decision to place the image of that famous women - abolitionist on $20 bill was made after the Treasury had went through thousands of letters from the American people. People were periodically sending letters upon the Treasury’s request with their suggestions who was worthy to be the face of the bill.

The new $10 bill will be devoted to the history of the suffragettes movement. The images of such women activists as Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Coward, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Paul will be etched on the background of the Treasury. It is noteworthy to remind that those activists gathered on the steps of the Treasury building to assert their rights seven years before the adoption of the 19th Amendment. Alexander Hamilton, the first head of the Treasury and the architect of the US economy, will still remain on the other side of the bill.

Historical events that took place at the Lincoln Memorial in DC will be find their place on the reverse side of $5 bill. In 1939, when the concert halls of DC were still divided in accordance with racial diversity, a black women opera singer Marian Anderson who spoke for the expansion of civil rights, with the support of the First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, sang at the Lincoln Memorial in front of 75 thousand people. In 1963 a fighter for black people’s rights Martin Luther King delivered his historic speech "I Have a Dream."

Liu pointed that the project of the $5, $10, $20 bill designs will be finally revealed 2020. It will be timed to the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution which granted women the right to vote.