Alice Paul, Moorestown Friends School alumna of class of 1901, will be featured on the back of the redesigned $10 bill, expected to debut in 2020, the centennial of the 19th Amendment establishing women’s suffrage. While Alexander Hamilton will remain on the front of the $10 note, the portraits of women’s suffrage leaders Alice Paul, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony will be depicted on the back.
According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the current image of the Treasury building will be replaced with an illustration of the Women’s Suffrage Parade of 1913. The march ended at the Treasury and, on the building’s steps, thousands demanded an amendment to the Constitution enfranchising women.
Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew announced the changes to American currency on April 20.
