Historic Exhibit Highlighted by Stamp Dedication Thursday

Black Heritage Stamp Series - Commemorative Stamp featuring North Carolina’s own educator, scholar and activist Anna Julia Cooper

SEDALIA, NC — The Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum and the U.S. Postal Service will highlight the museum’s newest exhibit in historic style when it introduces the newest entry in the Black Heritage Stamp Series, the commemorative stamp featuring North Carolina’s own educator, scholar and activist Anna Julia Cooper. The 32^nd stamp in the Series will be dedicated on Thursday, February 4, 2010 at the Museum in Sedalia, NC, off Exit 135 of I-40 on Route 70, beginning at 1 pm.

The current, temporary exhibit at the Museum is a display of African Americans on U.S. postage stamps, dating back to 1940, courtesy of Frank P. Scott. The display is a combination of stamps and accompanying promotional posters produced by the U.S. Postal Service, including stamps with notable North Carolina natives John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk and Charles Chesnutt. The exhibit is free and open to the public during the Museum’s normal operating hours, which are Monday through Saturday, 10 am – 4 pm.

Sedalia Postmaster Jackie Waters will be on hand to help dedicate the Anna Julia Cooper stamp, which is now available at Post Offices nationwide and online at www.usps.com/shop. For more information, call the Museum at (336) 449-4846 or visit http://news.ncdcr.gov/2010/01/08/upcoming-at-historic-sites/#chb.

# # #

Please Note: For broadcast quality video and audio, photo stills and other media resources, visit the USPS Newsroom at www.usps.com/news.

A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation, 150 million residences, businesses and Post Office Boxes. The Postal Service receives no tax dollars. With 36,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, the Postal Service relies on the sale of postage, products and services to pay for operating expenses. Named the Most Trusted Government Agency five consecutive years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $68 billion and delivers nearly half the world’s mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 26th in the 2008 Fortune 500.