A portrait of an African American woman may appear on the 20 dollar bill.

Legendary Harriet Tabmen - an African-American woman who managed to escape from slavery and help thousands of other slaves to escape the 1861-1865 Civil War to escape, may one day become the new face of a twenty-dollar bill.

More than 600 000 thousands of people took part in the online voting entitled “Women in the Twenties”, whose organizers want the 2020 to put a portrait of one of the great heroines of American history instead of the seventh US President Andrew Jackson.

The campaign is dedicated to the 100 anniversary of the official ratification of the amendment to the Constitution, which granted women the right to vote. Although only the Ministry of Finance can issue an order to change the design of banknotes and coins, bills have already been submitted to Congress on the placement of a female portrait on the bill.

Tabmen helped black slaves escape from plantations in the southern United States with the help of the so-called “Underground Railroad” - a secret organization that shared its goal of abolishing slavery in the United States.

As part of the campaign, Tabmen gained more than 118 000 votes, ahead of candidates like former US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, the civil rights heroine Rosa Parks and Wilma Mankiller, the first Cherokee female leader.

“Our work will not be completed until we have a twenty-dollar bill with a portrait of Harriet in our hands,” said organization executive director Susan Aids Stone. According to Stone, the organizers sent the results of the vote to President Obama, asking him to instruct Finance Minister Jack Lew to order a change in the design of the banknote.

The only woman whose portrait is now placed on American money is Sakagaveya, depicted on a coin worth 1 dollar. This brave Indian woman accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition in the Western United States.

There are two more coins in the US Mint registry that depict women: Alabama’s twenty-five with a portrait of Helen Keller minted in 2003 and a dollar coin with a portrait of Susan B. Anthony, which was in circulation before 1981 of the year.