New $5 bill will feature legendary opera singer Marian Anderson

[KamaAina]

http://www.phillytrib.com/news/new-bill-will-feature-legendary-opera-singer-marian-anderson/article_02d6f041-bb44-530e-8d76-a0f302ded6c2.html

In the upcoming years, you may be able to look in your wallet and see Philadelphia’s own Marian Anderson on the back of a $5 bill.

Although Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew made the announcement regarding the design updates to the $5, $10 and $20 bills earlier this year — he was in town on Friday discussing historic changes in currency as he toured the Marian Anderson Residence Museum and met with graduate students from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Anderson, along with Eleanor Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr., will be on the reverse side of the new $5 bill. The front of the bill will retain President Abraham Lincoln’s portrait....

Additionally, on the reverse side of the $10 bill, heroes from the women’s suffrage movement will be added. Those women include Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. The front of the bill will still contain Alexander Hamilton.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. That's great, and it's about time! n/t

[GWC58]

2. Susan B. Anthony on the back

of a bill is better than her being on a quarter, opps, I mean a dollar coin. Lost a few of those in soda machines. 😖

[bulloney]

3. That'll get the RWNJs riled up like the announcement of Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

I had a relative (by marriage) who ranted on FB that Tubman's picture has no business on 'Murcan currency. Only Presidents' images (and select ones I'm sure) should be allowed on U.S. currency.

I responded, "You mean like Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill and Ben Franklin on the $100 bill?"

[Grey Lemercier]

4. a Benjamin says he also is 100% sure that jeebus was white

[Beartracks]

5. He prob'ly only knows the Presidents that are on bills.

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[BumRushDaShow]

6. Heard that on the news here in Philly yesterday

Pretty big thing since Lew visited her house (designated historic site and museum).

[AwakeAtLast]

7. This Music Teacher wholeheartedly approves!