Harriet Tubman's image to be placed on $20 bill
Harriet Tubman will be depicted on the front of the $20 bill, the Treasury Department announced April 20.
The move will make the abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor, who was an unabashed Christian, the first African American to be portrayed on the front of a bill.
Tubman was born in slavery around 1820 in Maryland and died free in 1913. After escaping in 1849 to Philadelphia, she returned to the South more than a dozen times, helping to lead hundreds of slaves to freedom, which earned her the name Moses.
