VERIFY: That's not a hanged man on the $20 bill

Some social media users have taken issue with the back of the $20 bill. They claim the bill depicts a Black man being lynched in front of the White House with a crowd of white people watching below.

WHAT WE FOUND
The U.S. Currency Education Program has a document online that shows a high-resolution version of the back of the 20 dollar bill.

That image of the White House is similar to photos taken of the White House’s North Portico taken by the Associated Press. There appears to be a lantern at the front of the building as well as some shrubbery on the lawn before it.

An article about White House lighting from the White House Historical Association confirms it’s a lantern. “Another well-known Caldwell light fixture, added to the White House North Portico in 1902, is a distinctive wrought iron and glass lantern,” the article says. Directly under that paragraph is another photo of the White House North Portico that shows a lantern and shrubbery.

The back of the $20 bill shows nothing different from other photos of the White House’s North Portico. It’s consistent with these photos in depicting a lantern rather than a hanging man and shrubbery rather than a crowd of people watching.

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