Meet the 11-year-old girl whose letter to President Obama led to plans for the first woman on US currency in more than a century
Sofia, 11, wrote to Obama to ask why there were no women on US bills
She made her own list suggestions including abolitionist Harriet Tubman
US officials have now announced Tubman will be the new face of $20 bills
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A woman will feature on US currency for the first time in more than 100 years - thanks to the efforts of an 11-year-old girl, thanks to the efforts of 11-year-old Sofia
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A woman will feature on US currency for the first time in more than 100 years - thanks to the efforts of an 11-year-old girl.
Sofia, from Cambridge in Massachusetts, had written to President Barack Obama in 2014 after a school project on historic American heroes.
'I realized no women had their face on our currency, so I went home and wrote the letter,' she told WCVB.
The schoolgirl demanded to know why there were no women on US bills, as 'if there were no women, there wouldn't be men'.
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Celebrated former U.S. slave Harriet Tubman will replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 banknote, the first time an African-American has been featured on US money
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She added that there were 'many women could be on dollars/ coins for the United States because of the important things they have done', and even provided a list of suggestions which included Emily Dickinson, Abigail Adams, Michelle Obama and Harriet Tubman.
Obama later wrote back calling her proposal 'a good idea' and praising the girl as 'pretty impressive.'
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Sofia, from Cambridge in Massachusetts, had written to President Barack Obama in 2014 after a school project on historic American heroes, asking why there were no women on US bills
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Two years later, and on Sofia's birthday, she had extra reason to celebrate after she got the news that former slave and abolitionist leader Tubman is set to appear on the $20.
Tubman replaces Andrew Jackson, the nation's seventh president and documented slave owner.
Senior Adviser to Obama, Valerie Jarrett, called Sofia personally to break the news - who was overcome with emotion.
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Obama later wrote back calling her proposal 'a good idea' and praising the girl as 'pretty impressive'
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