The U.S. Postal Service said an upcoming stamp “celebrates the life and legacy” of late congressman and civil rights giant John Lewis, who died at age 80 in 2020 from pancreatic cancer.
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.wrote to the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee last yearOther stamps announced Tuesday include ones honoring the Florida Everglades, skateboard art and children’s book author and illustrator Tomie dePaola.
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