US Stamps for Trade: Black Heritage

1978 – PRESENT

African-American leaders, inventors, activists, sports figures, and culture-shapers whose lives changed history.

AVAILABILITY

HARRIET TUBMAN 1978
BENJAMIN BANNEKER 1980
WHITNEY MOORE YOUNG 1981
JACKIE ROBINSON 1982
SCOTT JOPLIN 1983
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE 1985
SOJOURNER TRUTH 1986
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON 1988 (mint)
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH 1989
IDA B. WELLS 1990
JAN E. MATZELIGER 1991 (MINT)
W.E.B. DUBOIS 1992
PERCY LAVON JULIAN 1993
DR. ALLISON DAVIS 1994
BESSIE COLEMAN 1995 (mint)
ERNEST E. JUST 1996 (Mint)
MADAM C.J. WALKER 1998 (mint)
MALCOLM X 1999
PATRICIA ROBERTS HARRIS 2000 (mint)
ROY WILKINS 2001
LANGSTON HUGHES 2002
THURGOOD MARSHALL 2003
PAUL ROBESON 2004
MARIAN ANDERSON 2005
HATTIE MCDANIEL 2006
ANNA JULIA COOPER 2009
OSCAR MICHEAUX 2010
BARBARA JORDAN 2011
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM 2014