Via PRI:
It’s time, says a nonprofit group, for a woman to break the monopoly of men on US paper currency. And Mr. Jackson, the Women On 20s are targeting you. One of its candidates to replace the Seminole-fighting frontiersman turned president: A Cherokee leader named Chief Wilma Mankiller.
The group, which hopes to have a woman on the bill by 2020, the 100th anniversary of the amendment giving women the right to vote, has assembled candidates with the help of historians and has asked people to vote on its website.
“We have a ballot with 15 candidates because we couldn’t make it any smaller,” says the group’s founder, Barbara Ortiz Howard. “We initially thought we’d have 12, but we could have had 1,200.”
Other than Chief Mankiller, candidates include Rosa Parks, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriet Tubman, Patsy Mink and Eleanor Roosevelt.