Freedom Just Around the Corner

This pocket sized exhibition booklet contains a chronicle of the African American experience told through the unique lens of stamps and mail. At around 100 pages long, it is full of beautiful color illustrations of stamp art. The National Postal Museum's exhibition opened to the public in the middle of Black History Month 2015, and ended in the middle of Black History Month 2016. Museum visitors learned about letters carried by slaves, mail to and from civil rights leaders, and original artwork from the USPS Black Heritage stamp series. This exhibition made history as the National Postal Museum’s first exhibition devoted entirely to African American history. And the NPM library is listed prominently in the acknowledgments. The timing was perfect. Not only did the exhibition celebrate the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, but it also marked 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.