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Postal Service unveils 2009 stamp program and Early TV Memori
The USPS previews a 2009 stamp plan featuring 20 Early TV Memories stamps released Aug 11 in Los Angeles plus commemoratives for Abraham Lincoln and civil rights pioneers. Most stamps cost 42 cents with a May rate increase planned. The Civil Rights group honors include Mary Church Terrell, Mary White Ovington, Spingarn, and Medgar Evers among others.
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Washington
D.C
Lucy
Ethel
Joe Friday
Groucho
Postal Service
Abraham Lincoln
Gary Cooper
Edgar Allan Poe
Supreme Court
Alaska
Hawaii
Los Angeles
Groucho Marx
Lucille Ball
Ethel Mertz
Jack Webb
Dinah Shore
Ed Sullivan
George Burns
Gracie Allen
Hopalong Cassidy
Howdy Doody
Kukla
Fran and
Ollie
Phil Silvers
Red Skelton
Texaco Star Theater
Tonight Show
Joseph Story
Louis D. Brandeis
Felix Frankfurter
William J. Brennan
New York
Mary Church Terrell
Mary White Ovington
J.R. Clifford
West Virginia
Joel Elias Spingarn
Spingarn
NAACP
Oswald Garrison Villard
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Daisy Gatson Bates
Central High School
Little Rock
Ark
Charles Hamilton Houston
Walter White
Medgar Evers
Mississippi
Fannie Lou Hamer
Ella Baker
Ruby Hurley