This Listing is for ONE NEW Pane of 10 x 37¢ Stamps from 2005, Featuring the History of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and Titled "To Form a More Perfect Union: Seeking Equal Rights for African Americans".
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These To Form A More Perfect Union commemorative self-adhesive 37¢ stamps, recognizing the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement, were issued on August 30, 2005 in the eight cities where the historical events depicted on the 10 different stamps took place: Greensboro, NC; Montgomery, AL; Memphis, TN; Selma, AL; Topeka, KS; Jackson, MS; Little Rock, AR; and Washington, DC. A quote from Martin Luther King, Jr. (from his "I Have a Dream" speech) is in the center of the stamps: "For in a real sense, America is essentially a dream - a dream, as yet, unfulfilled. It is a dream of a land where men of all races, of all nationalities and of all creeds, can live together as brothers." Underneath the quote is a portrait of the Rev. MLK, "From Selma to Montgomery" painted by Louis Delsarte in 2000. Information about each of the 10 stamps (event, summary, painting title and artist credit) is included on the back of the sheet (see photo).
1948 - Executive Order 9981 (issued by President Harry S. Truman, abolishing segregation in the U.S. Armed Forces. Training for War is a silk-screen print made circa 1941 by William H. Johnson.
1954 - Brown v. Board of Education (the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregated educational facilities are inherently unequal). The Lamp is a 1984 lithograph by Romare Bearden.
1955 - Montgomery Bus Boycott (following Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to let a white passenger take her seat on a bus). Walking is a 1958 painting by Charles Alston.
1957 - Little Rock Nine (courageous African-American students in Little Rock, AR, who were the first to integrate the city’s Central High School in the face of steadfast opposition). America Cares is a 1997 George Hunt painting.
1960 - Lunch Counter Sit-Ins (movement to integrate "whites-only" lunch counters, acts of civil disobedience started by 4 African American college students in Greensboro, NC). This exhibit was created for the National Civil Rights Museum by StudioEIS, a design and fabrication firm in New York.
1961 - Freedom Riders (biracial groups of courageous men and women, who challenged discrimination by taking interstate bus trips through the South and using the “wrong” facilities at stops). Freedom Riders is a 1963 gouache by May Stevens.
1963 - March on Washington (where MLK gave his “I Have a Dream” speech to more than 250,000 people gathered to demand racial justice). March on Washington was painted in 1964 by Alma Thomas.
1964 - Civil Rights Act (bill to outlaw discrimination in public accommodations, initiated by President Kennedy in ’63 and signed into law by President Johnson on July 2, 1964). Dixie Café is a 1948 brush-and-ink drawing by Jacob Lawrence.
1965 - Selma March (a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, AL to the capitol in Montgomery, led by MLK to demand an end to discrimination). Selma March is a 1991 acrylic painting by Bernice Sims.
1965 - Voting Rights Act (signed into law on August 6, 1965 by President Johnson, and finally giving African Americans who had been kept from voting, the ability to have an impact on local, state and national elections). Youths on the Selma March is a 1965 photograph by Bruce Davidson.
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