Harriet Tubman for new $10 note, say historians
Harriet Tubman for new $10 note, say historians
- September 10, 2015
- Bill Maurer, anthropology professor and social sciences dean, is quoted by Bloomberg Business and The Daily Herald Sept. 10, 2015
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From The Daily Herald:
Bill Maurer, a cultural anthropologist at the University of California, Irvine, who
participated in the same gathering, said …. “We actually had people of African descent
on currency in the past, but it has been people who were represented as slaves and
these were on Confederate bank notes,” Maurer said.
For the full story, please visit http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-11/case-for-harriet-tubman-builds-as-lew-nears-decision-on-10-note.
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