The Women on 20s Campaign Celebrates the Harriet Tubman $20

Susan Ades Stone, one of the women behind a campaign to put Harriet Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill, is a big fan of the musical “Hamilton.” Like Lin-Manuel Miranda, the show’s creator, she had mixed feelings in June of last year, when the Treasury Department announced that, rather than replacing Andrew Jackson on the twenty, as Ades Stone’s Women on 20s campaign had wanted, it would put a woman on the ten-dollar bill along with Alexander Hamilton. Last month, after she and the campaign’s co-creator, her friend Barbara Ortiz Howard, scored tickets to see “Hamilton,” she vowed to get backstage and meet Miranda. The three of them had a lot to discuss, she thought. All of them would have preferred for the Treasury Department to drop Jackson, a now-unpopular President who opposed central banking and was largely responsible for the historical expulsion of Native Americans from their land. Ades Stone and Howard brought Women on 20s hats to “Hamilton,” hoping to give some to Miranda.