Valerie Manokey still had tears in her eyes hours after hearing that her great-great aunt, Harriet Tubman, will be the new face of the $20 bill. “I say what God intends to be, will be,” said the 80-year-old retired social worker from Cambridge, Md. Manokey was at the Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center in Cambridge to celebrate and for media interviews. “Our parents started teaching us about her when I was 5 years old,” said Manokey, perhaps one of the oldest living descendants. “As we grew older, we learned more and more. We read about the ups and downs. The suffering and the...
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