Civil Rights Pioneers Full Set

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In 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was formed “To promote equality of rights and to eradicate caste or race prejudice among the citizens of the United States.”
A century later, the United States Postal Service honored the accomplishments of this important civil rights organization with the issue of this six-stamp set.  Each stamp pictures two individuals who made the fight for equality their life’s work.
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• Mary Church Terrell – Filed the lawsuit that desegregated Washington, D.C. restaurants.  (1953)
• Mary White Ovington – Co-founded the NAACP.  (1909)
• J.R. Clifford – Won the nation’s first court case declaring racial discrimination illegal.  (1898)
• Joel Elias Spingarn – Introduced the Spingarn medal – for outstanding achievement by an African American.  (1913)
• Oswald Garrison Villard – Used his newspapers to call the first meeting of the NAACP.  (1909)
• Daisy Gatson Bates – Led the “Little Rock Nine” to de-segregating their Arkansas high school.  (1957)
• Charles Hamilton Houston – Involved in almost every Supreme Court Civil Rights case between 1930 and 1954.
• Walter White – Used his fair skin, blond hair and blue eyes to “pass” as a Caucasian and covertly investigate 41 lynchings.
• Medgar Evers – Became a martyr of the civil rights movement after he was fatally shot in his own driveway in 1963.
• Fannie Lou Hamer – Fought for African American delegates to be included at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
• Ella Baker – Established a network of activists that vastly increased membership in the NAACP.
• Ruby Hurley – Went undercover to investigate several lynching’s throughout the South.

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