BLACK AMERICANS
on U.S. stamps
Reference Listing. Only those issues listed in bold are available for sale. (updated 7/12/08)

Section 1

USPS "Black Heritage" Stamp Series
Cat #	Description	Issued	Price
1744	13¢ Harriet Tubman and Cart Carrying Slaves	2/1/78	0.30
1771	15¢ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Civil Rights Marchers	1/13/79	0.35
1804	15¢ Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806, astronomer and mathematician)	2/15/80	0.40
1875	15¢ Whitney Moore Young (1921-1971, civil rights leader)	1/30/81	0.30
2016	20¢ Jackie Robinson	8/2/82	0.90
2044	20¢ Scott Joplin (1868-1917)	6/9/83	0.40
2073	20¢ Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950, black historian)	2/1/84	0.35
2137	22¢ Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955, educator)	3/5/85	0.50
2203	22¢ Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883, human rights activist)	2/4/86	0.45
2249	22¢ Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable (c. 1750-1818, pioneer trader, founder of Chicago)	2/20/87	0.45
2371	22¢ James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938, author and lyricist)	2/2/88	0.45
2402	25¢ Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979, labor and civil rights leader)	2/3/89	0.55
2442	25¢ Ida B. Wells (1862-1931, journalist)	2/1/90	0.75
2567	29¢ Jan E. Matzeliger	9/15/91	0.50
2617	29¢ W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963, writer and civil rights leader)	1/31/92	0.55
2746	29¢ Percy Lavon Julian (1899-1975, chemist)	1/29/93	0.60
2816	29¢ Dr. Allison Davis (1902-1983, social anthropologist, educator)	2/1/94	0.60
2956	32¢ Bessie Coleman (d. 1926, aviator)	4/27/95	0.65
3058	32¢ Ernest E. Just (1883-1941, marine biologist)	2/1/96	0.55
3121	32¢ Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.	1/28/97	0.60
3181	32¢ Madam C. J. Walker	1/28/98	0.65
3273	33¢ Malcolm X (1925-1965)	1/20/99	0.70
3371	33¢ Patricia Roberts Harris	1/27/00	0.60
3501	34¢ Roy Wilkins	1/24/01
3557	34¢ Langston Hughes	2/1/02	0.60
3746	37¢ Thurgood Marshall	1/7/03	0.55
3834	37¢ Paul Robeson (screen/stage actor, civil-rights activist)	1/20/04	0.55
3896	37¢ Marian Anderson	1/27/05	0.45
3996	39¢ Hattie McDaniel	1/25/06	0.48

Section 2

More Black Americans honored on US postage stamps
Cat #	Description	Issued	Price
953	3¢ Dr. George Washington Carver (1864-1943) botanist	1/5/48	0.20
1290	25¢ Frederick Douglass (tagged?)	2/14/67	0.55
1372	6¢ W.C. Handy (William Christopher Handy)	5/17/69	0.20
1486	8¢ Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937, artist)	9/10/73	0.13
1554	10¢ Paul Laurence Dunbar - poet	5/1/75	0.25
1560	10¢ Salem Poor - Patriot	3/25/75	0.15
1860	20¢ Ralph Bunche	1/12/82	0.45
1865	35¢ Charles R. Drew, MD	6/3/81
2097	20¢ Roberto Clemente	8/17/84	1.45
2211	22¢ Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974, jazz composer)	4/29/86	0.40
2496	25¢ Jesse Owens, 1936 Olympics	7/6/90	1.15
2726	29¢ Clyde McPhatter	6/16/93
2728	29¢ Otis Redding	6/16/93
2730	29¢ Dinah Washington	6/16/93
2724-30	29¢ American Music Series in pane and booklet (#2731-7) formats	6/16/93	SINGLES 4.50
2766	29¢ Joe Louis (1914-1981)	6/22/93
2851	29¢ Ethel Waters {American Music Series}	9/1/94
2852	29¢ Nat "King" Cole (1919-1965) {American Music Series}	9/1/94
2854	29¢ Bessie Smith (1894-1937) {American Music Series}	9/17/94
2855	29¢ Muddy Waters (1915-1983) {American Music Series}	9/17/94
2856	29¢ Billie Holiday (1915-1959) {American Music Series}	9/17/94
2857	29¢ Robert Johnson (1911-1938) {American Music Series}	9/17/94
2858	29¢ Jimmy Rushing (1902-1972) {American Music Series}	9/17/94
2859	29¢ "Ma" Rainey (1886-1939) {American Music Series}	9/17/94
2860	29¢ Mildred Bailey (1907-1951) {American Music Series}	9/17/94
2861	29¢ Howlin' Wolf (1910-1976) {American Music Series}	9/17/94
2869g	29¢ Bill Pickett
2975h	32¢ Frederick Douglass
2975k	32¢ Harriet Tubman
2982	32¢ Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)	9/1/95
2983-92 image	32¢ Coleman Hawkins, James P. Johnson, Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Parker, Eubie Blake, Charles Mingus (1922-1979), Thelonious Mnk, John Coltrane, Erroll Garner
3096	32¢ Count Basie	9/11/96	(F)   0.40
3182l	32¢ W.E.B. Du Bois   (Celebrate the Century)	2/03/98	0.50
3183c	32¢ George W. Carver   (from Celebrate the Century)	2/03/98	0.55
3185j	32¢ Jesse Owens   (from Celebrate the Century)	9/10/98
3186c	33¢ Jackie Robinson   (from Celebrate the Century)	2/18/99
3188a	33¢ Martin Luther King, Jr. (from Celebrate the Century)	9/17/99	0.70
3212	32¢ Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter (1888-1940)	6/26/98
3214	32¢ Sonny Terry (1911-1986)	6/26/98
3215	32¢ Josh White (1908-1969)	6/26/98
3212-5	Block (or strip) of four in Folk Singers issue of American Music Series	6/26/98
3216	32¢ Mahalia Jackson	7/15/98
3217	32¢ Roberta Martin	7/15/98
3218	32¢ Clara Ward	7/15/98
3219	32¢ Sister Rosetta Tharpe	7/15/98
3216-9	32¢ Block (or strip) of four in Gospel Singers issue of American Music Series	7/15/98
3408a	33¢ Jackie Robinson (Legends of Baseball)	7/06/00
3408j	33¢ Roberto Clemente (Legends of Baseball)	7/06/00
3408p	33¢ Satchel Paige (Legends of Baseball)	7/06/00
3408r	33¢ Josh Gibson (Legends of Baseball)	7/06/00
3667	37¢ Ethel L. Payne, Women of Journalism	9/14/02
3748	37¢ Zora Neale Hurston (Literary Arts series)	1/24/03
3936	37¢ Arthur Ashe	8/27/05	0.50
3937	37¢ Civil Rights, pane of 10	8/30/05	4.50
4020	39¢ Sugar Ray Robinson	4/07/06	0.48

Section 3

Miscellaneous
Cat #	Description	Issued	Price
902	3¢ 13th Ammendment 75th Anniversary - Emancipation Monument	10/20/40	0.25
1233	5¢ Emancipation Proclamation	8/16/63	0.12
1791	15¢ Black Olympians, Runners in the 22nd Summer Olympic Games, Moscow	9/28/79	0.25
2051	13¢ Black Olympian Boxer, Olympics '84	7/28/83
2768	29¢ Porgy & Bess	7/14/93
2818	29¢ Buffalo Soldiers	4/22/94	0.50
3184k	32¢ Jazz   (from Celebrate the Century)	5/28/98
3187f	33¢ School Desegregation   (from Celebrate the Century)	5/26/99	0.45
3190j	33¢ "The Cosby Show"   (from Celebrate the Century)	1/13/00	0.60
3175	32¢ Kwanzaa	1997	0.45
3368	33¢ Kwanzaa	1999	0.45
3548	34¢ Kwanzaa	2001	0.45
3881	37¢ Kwanzaa	2004	0.48
4119	39¢ Kwanzaa	2006	0.50
4220	41¢ Kwanzaa	2007	0.52

Reference Listing. Only those issues listed in bold are available for sale.

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