Civil Rights Pioneers Honored on Stamps

Stamps highlight NAACP’s 100th Anniversary

LOUISVILLE, KY — The sacrifices of 12 civil rights pioneers are being immortalized on a new set of First-Class Mail commemorative stamps being released nationwide on Saturday, February 21.

The Civil Rights Pioneers’ stamp sheet, bearing six stamps, honors the achievements of Ella Baker, Daisy Gatson Bates, J.R. Clifford, Medgar Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Charles Hamilton Houston, Ruby Hurley, Mary White Ovington, Joel Elias Spingarn, Mary Church Terrell, Oswald Garrison Villard and Walter White.

To help celebrate the release, Raoul Cunningham, president of the NAACP Louisville Chapter, plans to be the first person in Louisville to purchase the stamps on Saturday. He will make his purchase at the Martin Luther King Jr. Post Office, 2727 West Broadway, at 8:25 a.m. Cunningham will be presented a poster of the new stamps by Station Manager Torris Little Jr. in the Post Office lobby.

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