Harriet Tubman Gallery – Move Over Jackson

Behind the art

In 2016, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that Harriet Tubman would replace Andrew Jackson (ironically, a slave owner) on the center of a new $20 bill. Current U.S. Treasury leader Steven Mnuchin is not putting the change high on his to-do list. In an interview August 2017 with CNBC, he was asked if he supported the change. He responded, “Ultimately we will be looking at this issue, [but] It’s not something that I’m focused on at the moment.”