A group that hopes to get the U.S. mint to replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with a woman are down to four candidates for the honor, including Eleanor Roosevelt and Rosa Parks.
WomenOn20s revealed today that voters picked Roosevelt, Parks and Harriet Tubman. The fourth candidate is Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, since many feld that there should be a Native american choice.
The group said that 256,569 people voted during the first round, which featured 15 candidates and ran five weeks. The other candidates included Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Sojourner Truth, Margaret Sanger, Patsy Mink, Alice Paul, Betty Friedan, Shirley Chisholm, Rachel Carson, Barbara Jordan, Frances Perkins and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
“As in the first round we want to be able to capture the major flood of enthusiasm , but do not want to over linger,” BarbaraOrtiz Howard, the founder of the group, told USA Today. She said that voting might be kept open past April if interest in the cause remains high.
Roosevelt, Parks and Tubman combined for over half of the votes, but the group felt it was important to keep Mankiller on the final ballot. That’s because President Jackson signed the infamous Indian Removal Act of 1830, which pushed tribes to the Oklahoma territory. Over 4,000 Cherokees died during the march, which is known as the “Trail of Tears.”
WomenOn20s hopes that the change can be made by 2020 to mark the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
You can vote for your choice in the final four here.