“From 15 contenders in a “robust” five-week “primary round” that ended Sunday, voters selected Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks and Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, WomenOn20s said. The competition began with 100 candidates, reports USA Today .
While the final ballot is still open, more than half of the Internet voters chose Roosevelt, Tubman and Parks as one of their top three, the group said. The organization added Mankiller to the final ballot “because of strong sentiment” that a Native American should be a candidate to replace Jackson, who was not only a slave owner but enacted Indian Removal Act of 1830, which relocated several tribes and led to the Trail of Tears during which 4,000 Cherokee people died. Mankiller died in 2010. She was the first female chief of the Cherokee people.
WomenOn20s plans to petition the White House to make the change by 2020, the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave American women the right to vote. If the petition is successful, it would the first time a woman has been on U.S. paper currency.
What woman would you vote to put on the $20 bill?
