African Americans on Stamps

African Americans on stamps
Adoption Amount: $250
Category: Build and Access the Collection
Location: National Postal Museum Library

African Americans on stamps

By Mack Bernard Morant. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, c2003.

At over two hundred pages long, this hardback book is basically an encyclopedia of African American heroes on postage stamps, both from the United States and around the world. Arranged alphabetically by last name, it provides short biographies, followed by black and white illustrations of each postage stamp. The stamps are numbered and references to the numbered stamps are in the biographies. For example, Michael Jordan, illustration #289, Tanzania postage stamp. In the center of the book, to the reader’s delight, are sixteen pages of color plates which vividly depict the United States Postal Service's Black Heritage Series, as well as stamps from foreign countries celebrating African Americans.

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