The US authorities have decided to make alterations to the design of $10 note by putting the image of a woman for the first time in over a century.
The US Treasury announced that a yet-unchosen woman, who made an impact on the development of democracy, will replace Alexander Hamilton, the famous statesman and the Federalist Party ideologist. The issue of new banknotes is scheduled for 2020.
US activists have organized a campaign under the slogan "The Women on 20" meaning a feature of a black woman on the $20 note. Campaign's participants believe that a former slave Harriet Tubman, who was African American rights activist, should be placed on a banknote instead of the former US President Andrew Jackson.
Only in 1886, the portrait of Martha Washington, the wife of the first US President George Washington, was on the head side of silver certificate with a nominal value of $1.
