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Black Heritage Stamp Series

The Black Heritage Stamps series exhibit is provided courtesy of the private collection of Thomas Nichols, a Shrewsbury resident. The USPS issued the first Black Heritage Stamp in 1978, with Harriet Tubman as the inaugural subject, and today, it is the longest-running US stamp series.

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She came to slay
Erica Armstrong Dunbar.
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The agitators
Dorothy Wickenden.
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Harriet Tubman
written by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; interior illustrations by Gillian Flint.
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