Calling all Girl Scouts: The $10 bill is getting a makeover and we need you to help us convince the U.S. Department of the Treasury to choose Girl Scouts’ founder Juliette Gordon Low to appear on the new $10 bill.
Last month Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced that a
woman of historical significance would replace Alexander Hamilton on the new
$10 bill. The redesigned $10 note
is scheduled to roll out in 2020, the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th
amendment, which granted women the right to vote.
There are hundreds of trailblazing women throughout American
history who would make great choices to replace Hamilton.
But here are five reasons we think the Treasury should choose Girl Scouts’ founder Juliette Gordon Low for the new $10 bill—and bring some Girl Scout green to the redesign:
But here are five reasons we think the Treasury should choose Girl Scouts’ founder Juliette Gordon Low for the new $10 bill—and bring some Girl Scout green to the redesign:
1. Juliette Gordon
Low built the world’s largest leadership organization for girls. You can
find our 59 million Girl Scout alumnae in the halls of Congress, on space
shuttles, and at the helm of businesses small and large as they raise the next
generation that will make the world a better place. Chances are, when you find
a successful woman leading the way, she’s very likely to answer the question,
“Were you a Girl Scout?” with an enthusiastic, “Yes, and it helped make me who
I am today.”
2. The Girl Scout
Movement’s proud tradition of inclusion has left its mark on American history.
From our earliest years—we were founded in 1912—girls of all colors were
welcomed at Girl Scouts. The first African American Girl Scout troops formed in
our first decade. Hispanic and American Indian troops joined them in the 1920s.
Girl Scout troops desegregated
before many other institutions in American society, building bridges between
girls of different colors.
3. Juliette Gordon
Low didn’t believe in stereotypes. She believed in shattering them. Against
the conventions of her time, Juliette Gordon Low traveled the world alone,
visiting India and Egypt. She moved to Paris to study art, and tackled every
challenge that came her way with both tenacity and grace, serving as a role
model for thousands of girls. She encouraged them to study revolutionary topics
like aviation, electrical systems, and other technical topics.
4. Juliette Gordon
Low believed all girls matter. Juliette Gordon Low, who was nearly deaf for
much of her life, made sure early Girl Scout troops welcomed girls of all
faiths, girls with disabilities, and girls from across the social and economic
spectrum. She envisioned a world where a girl who came from an orphanage in
Savannah could belong to the same sisterhood as a girl from one of the city’s
most prominent families.
Just as Gordon Low intended, the Girl Scout Movement remains open to all girls today.
5. Millions of girls
and women have made our country—and the world—a better place through Girl
Scouts. Service has been at the heart of the Girl Scout Movement from the
beginning. Today, 103 years later, Girl Scouts still make the world a better
place every day. Our alumnae even report higher levels of civic engagement. The
service of millions of girls of courage, confidence, and character has impacted
generations, transforming countless communities.
As Juliette Gordon Low said, “The work of today is the
history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.”
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