Why in the hell is Elizabeth Stanton allowed anywhere near a place of honor?

Eventually, Stanton's oppositional rhetoric took on racial overtones. Arguing on behalf of female suffrage, Stanton posited that women voters of "wealth, education, and refinement" were needed to offset the effect of former slaves and immigrants whose "pauperism, ignorance, and degradation" might negatively affect the American political system. She declared it to be "a serious question whether we had better stand aside and see 'Sambo' walk into the kingdom [of civil rights] first." Some scholars have argued that Stanton's emphasis on property ownership and education, opposition to black male suffrage, and desire to hold out for universal suffrage fragmented the civil rights movement by pitting African-American men against women and, together with Stanton's emphasis on "educated suffrage," in part established a basis for the literacy requirements that followed in the wake of the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment.

Susan B Anthony deserves to be honored, she fought the good fight for human dignity and rights. Stanton turned into a flaming militant racist when she got older who fought against civil rights for freed slaves; if we are challenging Woodrow Wilson's place in history (as we should) the Stanton decision is a step backwards IMO.

Want to put someone on the currency who did good by the country, deserves recognition and we can all be proud of? My vote is for Sarah Josepha Hale. She earned a living as a writer in a time when it was rare if not unheard of for women to earn a living. She fought for women's access to education and helped found Vasser. She was also working for women's rights a generation before Anthony and Stanton which would be a nod to the people who paved the way for the Suffrage Movement after the Civil War.

Hale is also a very pro-American writer, which will help shut up the bigots and MRA's who are inevitably going to whine about the change.

Of all the women to honor, they could not come up with someone better? Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison? Hell, for that matter, you want a firebrand that will stand as a lightening rod, why not Molly Pitcher? Why not Margaret Corbin, the first woman to receive a military pension in the US? And if you want a symbol of how a 'girl' can be a bad-ass, Deborah Sampson was one of very few combat veterans with confirmed kills in the Revolutionary war.