For White Plains' Abdul Tubman, the push to get Harriet Tubman's face on the $20 is personal News 12 Staff Updated on:Feb 26, 2021, 11:33pm EST For Abdul Tubman of White Plains, the push to get the face of legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman to grace the $20 is personal. He is her great-nephew. "Being a Tubman specifically for me is more of continuing the legacy of courage, bravery,” he says. Women on 20s years ago started the currency campaign that caught the Obama administration’s attention. Founders Barbara Ortiz Howard and Susan Ades Stone started the movement to put women on U.S. currency.