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New $5 Bill To Feature Martin Luther King, Eleanor Roosevelt, Marian Anderson; Lincoln To*
International Business times ^ | 4/21/2016 | Bruce Wright

Posted on 04/21/2016 4:40:43 AM PDT by simpson96

The $5 bill is set to get an upgrade of sorts. While former President Abraham Lincoln’s image will still grace the front of it, the reverse side of the bill is set to "honor historic events that occurred at the Lincoln Memorial," including moments made memorable from the likes of civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., opera singer Marian Anderson and former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, the U.S. Treasury Department announced Wednesday afternoon.

The news comes hours after the Treasury Department unveiled its plans to make significant changes to the appearances of the $20 and $10 bills.

The selection of the three historic figures is noteworthy for a number of reasons, but the fact that they're all either African-American or women, or in Anderson's case, both, is a significant milestone for American currency, which traditionally has only featured white people and has very rarely included a woman. It was not immediately clear when the new $5 will go into circulation.

King, Anderson and Roosevelt are all linked to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., which explains in part why their images were chosen to be featured on the new $5 bill.

Anderson, who is African-American, performed in 1939 at the Lincoln Memorial. Her performance is credited with helping to "advance civil rights" during segregation, the Treasury Department said. Roosevelt helped make that performance happen.

King's "I Have a Dream" speech also took place at the Lincoln Memorial. That address called for an end to U.S. racism in addition to a plea for equal civil and economic rights for African-Americans.

The $20 bill will also get new treatment in the form of featuring renowned runaway slave Harriet Tubman on its front, replacing Andrew Jackson. The new $20 will enter into circulation in 2020. The new $10 bill will keep Alexander Hamilton on the front, but its flip side "will celebrate the history of the women’s suffrage movement," according to the Treasury Department. The back will showcase images of historic American women, including Sojourner Truth, who is African-American, and Susan B. Anthony, whose likeness has already graced the front of a dollar coin.


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To: simpson96

I will return all Pander-currency to the bank as a deposit to my account. Hope everyone does.


21 posted on 04/21/2016 5:29:24 AM PDT by Rapscallion (You are correct. It IS a conspiracy, not a bad dream.)
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To: Flick Lives
Show up with this and you might get arrested. It has happened at least once.


22 posted on 04/21/2016 5:30:32 AM PDT by xp38
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To: detective

It wasn’t bad enough that Obama destroyed the currency figuratively, he’s going to destroy it literally also.

This may cause:

1. A shift to electronic transactions (no one will want to carry those crack-butt ugly visages around)

2. A worldwide abandonment of the US dollar as standard.

If we are looking for great American black women...how about Josephine Baker? And someday after they are gone...Oprah Winfrey? Condoleezza Rice?


23 posted on 04/21/2016 5:32:47 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: xp38

I await the time the declaration signing is removed from the back of the $2bill and replaced with an image of the Islamic Council meeting or the African Union council.


24 posted on 04/21/2016 5:39:03 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
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To: simpson96

This whole movement is Pure Bull excretia.


25 posted on 04/21/2016 5:52:57 AM PDT by chatham
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To: xp38

Yup! Almost no one knows the $2 bill is real.


26 posted on 04/21/2016 6:12:04 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: Flick Lives

The Fed’s need to worry more about the “value” of the currency than who’s photo appears on it.


27 posted on 04/21/2016 6:24:52 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Flick Lives

Yeah that was the problem. The store manager and cop that showed up didn’t believe that it was legal tender. I would give a cashier a pass but not their superior who should have known. The cop definitely should have known.


28 posted on 04/21/2016 6:30:00 AM PDT by xp38
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To: simpson96

Just going to use that currency that hasn’t been “modified” and plastic.


29 posted on 04/21/2016 6:47:34 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Flick Lives

Yup...even Trump suggested maybe we should do a 2 dollar bill instead of changing the 10 and 20


30 posted on 04/21/2016 7:05:53 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner: with Cloward Piven for Dessert)
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To: xp38

We should eliminate bills and go with all coins.

At least then all of this tokenism would make sense.


31 posted on 04/21/2016 7:30:24 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Flick Lives
Yup! Almost no one knows the $2 bill is real.

SHHHHHHH!!! Or the Treasury Dept. will start spending millions of our tax dollars on PSA's to edumacate us.


32 posted on 04/21/2016 7:31:39 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: mastertex

Bahamas has a $3 bill. Probably enriched The Bahamas coffers, as every tourist had to have one!


33 posted on 04/21/2016 7:41:24 AM PDT by Does so (Vote for Hillary...Stay Home...==8-O)
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To: simpson96
Nice of obama and his cohorts to continue to spend Americans tax dollars on bullshit agendas...
they haven't stolen enough from America...the bastards...
34 posted on 04/21/2016 7:46:02 AM PDT by novemberslady
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To: simpson96

This shyt has gone too far.

Please President Trump - make it a priority to undo all the damage the dhimmicrats have wreaked upon America!


35 posted on 04/21/2016 8:49:49 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: simpson96

Render unto Caesar...


36 posted on 04/21/2016 8:51:02 AM PDT by WriteOn (Truth)
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To: simpson96

Leave our money alone!!


37 posted on 04/21/2016 8:54:47 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: simpson96

I intend to write to President Trump about this outrage. MLK? NEVER!


38 posted on 04/21/2016 12:23:42 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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To: novemberslady

I think it’s bullsh.. too, but they don’t care what we want. MLK doesn’t deserve to be on currency.


39 posted on 04/21/2016 4:21:32 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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