New $5 bill will feature legendary opera singer Marian Anderson [Reported Earlier]

BY   Ryanne Persinger    PUB    [perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=”15″]In the upcoming years, you may be able to look in your wallet and see Philadelphia’s own Marian Anderson on the back of a $5 bill.[/perfectpullquote]
Although Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew made the announcement regarding the design updates to the $5, $10 and $20 bills earlier this year — he was in town on Friday discussing historic changes in currency as he toured the Marian Anderson Residence Museum and met with graduate students from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Anderson, along with Eleanor Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr., will be on the reverse side of the new $5 bill. The front of the bill will retain President Abraham Lincoln’s portrait.

“I came here today, because as part of our redesign of our United States currency, our money, one of the things we’re going to be doing in representing more of American history, we’re putting images of women, images of people who have not been on our currency before,” Lew said. “The whole country should be reflected in the history that we show in our currency.” [mc4wp_form id=”6042″]

Richard Avedon (American, New York 1923–2004 San Antonio, Texas). Credit © The Richard Avedon Foundation

In addition to Anderson and Martin Luther King, Jr. on the $5 bill, the U.S. Treasury Department said it plans to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill and suffragists on the $10 bill. ESTATE OF YOUSUF KARSH