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Index of Black History-Related Postage
Stamps

Black Americans have made important inventions and discoveries, created
great works of art, and excelled in science, music, medicine and sports.
They have played important roles in America's history. All Americans need
to know about these important people. The accomplishments of these black
heroes can help us all realize how these black Americans overcame obstacles
in order to reach their goals.
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U.S. Postage Stamps
Louis Armstrong
Benjamin Banneker
Ida B. Wells (Barnett)
Count Basie
Jim Beckwourth
Mary McLeod Bethune
Eubie Blake
Ralph Bunche
George Washington Carver
Roberto Clemente
Nat King Cole
Bessie Coleman
John Coltrane
Dr. Allison Davis
Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.
Frederick Douglass
Charles R. Drew
W.E.B. DuBois
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable
Duke Ellington
Erroll Garner
W.C. Handy
Coleman Hawkins
Bille Holiday
Mahalia Jackson
James P. Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
Robert Johnson
Scott Joplin
Percy Lavon Julian
Ernest E. Just
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Joe Louis
Hudson William Ledbetter (Leadbelly)
Roberta Martin
Jan E. Matzeliger
Clyde McPhatter
Charles Mingus
Thelonious Monk
Jelly Roll Morton
Jesse Owens
Charlie Parker
Bill Pickett
Salem Poor
'MA' Rainey
A. Philip Randolph
Otis Redding
Jackie Robinson
Jimmy Rushing
Bessie Smith
Henry O. Tanner
Sonny Terry
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Madam C.J. Walker
Clara Ward
Booker T. Washington
Dinah Washington
Ethel Waters
Muddy Waters
Josh White
Howlin' Wolf
Carter G. Woodson
Whitney Moore Young
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