Object Details
- Description
- On February 21, 2009, in New York, New York, the US Postal Service issued the 42-cent Civil Rights Pioneers commemorative stamp in six designs in a pressure-sensitive souvenir sheet of six stamps. Greg Berger of Bethesda, Maryland, designed the stamps.
- The stamps honor twelve leaders of the struggle for African-American civil rights. These visionary men and women energized a movement that spanned generations. Art director Ethel Kessler and stamp designer Greg Berger, both of Bethesda, Maryland, chose to approach this project through photographic montage. Paring two pioneers on each stamp was a way of intensifying the montage effect.
- Avery Dennison (AVR), Clinton, South Carolina, printed 24 million using the gravure process.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin, January 29, 2009.
- The March on Washington occurred between two infamous civil rights crimes.NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi two months before the March; less than a month afterward, four young girls died in a bombing at Birmingham, Alabama’s 16th Street Baptist Church.
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- February 21, 2009
- Object number
- 2009.2029.130
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink / photogravure
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 4384e
- National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Black Heritage
- Women's Heritage
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- Political Figures
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2009.2029.130
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8a5a50a18-43c6-4700-b281-9372630165a1
