andrew jackson
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Protesters Attempted to Tear Down an Andrew Jackson Statue Near the White House
Apparently a lot of folks have decided that if government officials won’t act to remove any and all monuments erected to celebrate oppressors, then it’s on the people to tear them all down themselves. On Monday night, protesters targeted the statue of President Andrew Jackson that stands in a park in Washington D.C., not far…
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Tubmans Over Everything: Designer Makes 3-D Printed Stamp That Will Turn All Your Bills to Harriet Money
The Trump administration may have put the brakes on $20 bills bearing Harriet Tubman’s image, but a Brooklyn artist has come up with a 3-D stamp that can provide a clever workaround—if you want it. As Jasmine Weber writes for HyperAllergic, artist Dano Wall was inspired to create the stamp after Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin…
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They Continue to Disparage Harriet Tubman, but There’s a Remedy for That
Not enough can be said about the queen Harriet Tubman. She is our black Moses. Freedom fighter. Union spy. Brilliant strategist. Abolitionist. God-fearing woman. Conductor of the Underground Railroad. Gangsta in the way that gangsta should be: warring against those who seek to oppress. So of course, Donald Trump and his ball-less, soulless Treasury Secretary…
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Tracing Your Roots: Is My Family’s Big Secret Presidential?
A reader wonders if she could be related to Andrew Jackson through one of his slaves. Dear Professor Gates: The story goes that my great-grandmother Laura Emily Jackson shouted to her only daughter, “I found my family. I found my family!” That night my grandmother went downstairs and found her mother burning all the family…