'Icon of Religious Liberty' Harriet Tubman to Grace $20 Bill
Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist and woman of faith, and now she will be the new face of the $20 bill.
The Treasury Department announced its decision to replace President Andrew Jackson's portrait with Tubman's image this week.
Tubman will be the first African-American to ever grace the cover of U.S. paper money and the first woman to be depicted in over a century.
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Kristina Arriaga, executive director of the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty, said Tubman's Christian faith inspired her to help lead hundreds of escaped slaves to freedom.
"Harriet Tubman was a woman of faith who was not afraid to act on her beliefs to fight for justice," Arriaga told the Catholic News Agency.
"Her incredible moral and physical courage is an example to all Americans, as is her willingness to act on her Christian faith. She is an icon of religious liberty," she added.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said in a statement Wednesday that Tubman "reflects both American values and American democracy, but also the power of an individual to make a difference in our democracy."
