Harriet Tubman To Replace Jackson On 20 Bill Hamilton To Stay On 10

WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department is expected to announce today that Harriet Tubman, an African-American abolitionist leader, will replace Andrew Jackson on the center of a new $20 note. The New York Times reports that Alexander Hamilton will remain on the face of the $10 bill. | SEE STORY

The new designs from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing would be made public in 2020, in time for the centennial of woman's suffrage and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. Other portrayals of civil rights leaders and women will also be part of new currency designs. None of the bills, including a new $5 note, would reach circulation until the next decade.

The decision wraps up the Treasury's public campaign asking for the change and months of deliberation on who to replace or keep on the $10 and $20 bills.