A First...

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I'm used to getting suggestions that we try to have Mary Surratt exonerated, but this suggestion is a first:

As some of you may know, there has been mention of replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with a woman. A Surratt member sent me a recent clipping from a hometown newspaper in which a suggestion is made that Mary Surratt replace President Jackson on the currency symbolizing "the first woman tortured and hanged unjustly - a Christian, innocently involved with the Lincoln conspiracy."

Rosa Parks and Viola Liuzzi were two other possible female contenders for the honor. If the latter's name is not familiar, she was a white woman murdered during the Selma marches by members of the KKK.