![]() The stamp was designed by Jerry Pinkney of Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., well known book illustrator who also designed the Tubman issue. ![]() The series was begun in 1978 with a commemorative for Harriet Tubman, the heroine of the Underground Railroad, who helped scores of slaves escape to freedom in the North. King is the second in the Black Heritage USA series that recognizes the contributions of black Americans to the growth and development of the United States. The vertical multicolored commemorative for Dr. 29 to send in their orders to the first‐day city, Atlanta, Ga., the place where he was born and where he was a minister at the time he was assassinated. King with just‐issued 15‐cent commemorative, which is scheduled to be available in all post offices tomorrow, the actual date of his birth in 1929.Ĭollectors of first-day-of-issue cancellations have until Jan. On the 50th anniversary of his birth, the nation has honored Dr. The speech, one of the most moving of modern times, brought home to millions of Americans the passionate urgency of the civil rights movement and pricked the conscience of a nation. “When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” ![]() “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skins but by the content of their character. The dreams went on, and the throng caught the cadence, responding with roaring emotion. ![]()
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