Alaska officials are promoting a Native civil rights leader to grace the redesign of the $10 bill.
Gov. Bill Walker and Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott sent letters nominating the late Elizabeth Peratrovich, a Tlingit, to be featured on the bill.
Peratrovich's testimony before the Alaska Territorial Senate is credited with helping in the passage of the territory's Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945, nearly 20 years before Congress approved the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Walker called Peratrovich a "true hero of American democracy."
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew wants to replace Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill with a woman.
Once a woman is selected, the agency will try to complete the redesign by 2020, the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.