Martin Luther King Jr. was more than a great civil rights leader. More than an effective champion of desegregation. More than a great communicator.

King was one of the greatest moral leaders of the twentieth century.

We created a national holiday for him. We've named schools and streets after him. Now it's time to put his image on the vehicle for our greatest national symbols:

Our money.

We created this web site to start a movement for putting Martin Luther King Jr. on the twenty-dollar bill. King symbolizes the triumph of love over hatred, of nonviolence over violence, and of community values over money values.

No American is more qualified than King to replace Andrew Jackson on the twenty-dollar bill. Jackson's presidential legacy is marked by the barbaric Indian Removal Act which evicted at least 47,000 Creek, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokee and Seminole Indians from their homes so their land could be turned into cotton-growing slave plantations. The Indian Removal Act led directly to the infamous Trail of Tears, where four thousand Cherokee men, women and children died in a forced march west.

Our strategy is to gather names to pressure President Bush and Congress to put King on the 20. Together we can make this happen!

Click here to sign the petition.

Read our op-ed piece from the San Francisco Chronicle!