Harriet Tubman: Anti-slavery activist to grace $20 note - first woman in 100 years

Report said the new currency designs would also include other depictions of women and civil rights leaders.

The United States is set to put Harriet Tubman, an anti-slavery hero, on the $20 note, making her the first woman on U.S. paper currency in 100 years.

New York Times reports that Tubman will replace the face of Andrew Jackson, the US seventh president.

According to report, US Treasury Department is expected to announce the development on Wednesday, April 20, 2016.

A Treasury official reportedly said that Alexander Hamilton will remain on the face of the $10 bill.

Report said the new currency designs would also include other depictions of women and civil rights leaders.

It was gathered that 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. None of the bills, including a new $5 note, would reach circulation until the next decade.

This is coming following a public campaign and months of deliberations by the Barrack Obama administration.

Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian. She escaped slavery and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved families and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.

She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era was an active participant in the struggle for women's suffrage.

She died on March 10, 1913 in Auburn, New York.