The late congressman and civil rights giant John Lewis will be honored with a postage stamp in 2023, the U.S. Postal Service announced.
Lewis’ bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in Selma in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation. By that time he was a major leader in the Civil Rights Movement, having helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and spoken at the March on Washington just before Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
Lewis went on to be elected to the Atlanta City Council and then to a long career in Congress, where he was frequently hailed as a moral leader. U.S. Sen. John Ossoff, a Georgia Democrat and onetime intern for Lewis, wrote to the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee last year requesting the stamp. Other stamps announced Tuesday include ones honoring the Florida Everglades, skateboard art and children's book author and illustrator Tomie dePaola.
Civil rights icon John Lewis died last week after a battle with pancreatic cancer. The New York Times remembers his fight for equality.
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Forever stamp to honor Rep. John Lewis, civil rights activist, in 2023The forever stamp, priced at the 1-ounce first-class postage rate and always valid regardless of future rate hikes, will show Lewis in 2013 from a photograph taken by Marco Grob, who was on assignment for Time magazine.
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Civil rights activist John Lewis to be honored on US Postal stamp next yearThe late congressman dedicated his life to activism, spending more than three decades of his life fighting for civil rights.
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Civil Rights Pioneer John Lewis to be Honored with Postage Stamp - Alabama NewsThe life of civil rights giant and Congressman John Lewis will be honored with a postage stamp in 2023, the U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday. alnews alabamanewsnetwork
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US postage stamp to honor civil rights icon John LewisThe late congressman and civil rights giant John Lewis will be honored with a postage stamp in 2023, the U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday. The design for the stamp uses a photograph taken by Marco Grob for a 2013 issue of Time magazine.
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