USA CURRENCY BANK NOTES

Design inspired in important women of America's history.

ALICE PAUL: Suffragette and pioneer of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. Back: Suffragettes march in New York City for Women's Right to Vote.

IDA B. WELLS-BARNETT: Suffragette and investigative journalist, worked on anti-black lynchings in America and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Back: An assembly of NAACP members in 1929.

SYLVIA RIVERA: LGBTQ activist at the Stonewall Inn in 1969. Back: The Gay Liberation Front marches to protest police abuses in 1969.

MARIA TALLCHIEF: first Native American prima ballerina, considered the first major American dancer to hold the title. Back: Map showing original Native American tribal territories.

YURI KOCHIYAMA: Japanese-American human rights activist. Back: Female fire fighters at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

SOJOURNER TRUTH: abolitionist and women's rights activist. Back: Soldiers of the U.S. Colored Troops, photographed on November 7, 1865.

AMELIA EARHART: an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment. Back: Amelia Earhart in her Lockheed Vega plane.