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Jane Shields: Remove Jackson from $20 bill

Regarding the June 18 news article “$10 bill to get a female face”: The purpose of removing Alexander Hamilton from the $10 bill is? If any improvement needs to be made, it would be removing President Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill. I don’t know how the Native Americans have tolerated his face all these years.

Jane Shields

Rocky Mount

This story was originally published June 24, 2015 at 6:14 PM with the headline "Jane Shields: Remove Jackson from $20 bill."

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