Posted on 12/13/2022 3:48:07 PM PST by Olog-hai
The late congressman and civil rights giant John Lewis will be honored with a postage stamp in 2023, the U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday.
The design for the stamp uses a photograph taken by Marco Grob for a 2013 issue of Time magazine. Lewis, then 73, wears a dark suit and blue tie and looks directly into the camera.
A 1963 picture of Lewis at a workshop on nonviolent protest in Clarksdale, Mississippi, taken by Steve Schapiro, is planned for the margin of the printed stamp sheets.
The Postal Service said the stamp “celebrates the life and legacy” of Lewis, who died at age 80 in 2020 from pancreatic cancer. …
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We need more of the current Democrats honored on stamps sooner rather than later...
I want a pervert stamp! When’s the Harvey Milk one come out?
I want a Rush Limbaugh stamp.
man who made a career out of being hit over the head. He was generally considered to be mentally impaired by people on the Hill. Typical, Gov Blackface had the statue of R E Lee removed from the Capitol Bldg Statuary Hall to be replaced by some obscure figure who was a career political agitator but of course a melanist and female.
Don’t forget serial election denier!
Or the Paul Pelosi stamp. I’m not sure he’s a politician but he’s a Democrat which makes him a cheat and pervert.
I have nothing but contempt for John Lewis. Dishonest man.
MLK? No problem. Booker T Washington? No problem. This filthy race pimp? Big problem!
Not a career based on being just another pretty face.
This is the first I notice that the waiting period of 10 years after death for a commemorative stamp for someone is long over. 5 for a while with exceptions and now the sky’s the limit. That way, current woke fads can be gushed over quickly for political gain.
Civil Rights icon....
He likely was an errand boy when MLK wanted an RC Cola and a Moon Pie.
Is there a list somewhere that shows any legitimate legislation this man put forth, that was of benefit to the American people?
I was told some time ago his legislation consisted of naming parks and roads.
No, there has to be an official Federal Holiday ‘honoring’ great gay Americans and a postage stamp issued for each ‘Gay Day’. Instead of Walt Whitman (He already has a stamp in his honor)the first such celebrated rump ranger would be the ‘martyred’ Harvey Milk.
“I have nothing but contempt for John Lewis. Dishonest man.”
He was a grifter.
I want to gag at the USPS seeing the display of stamps. It’s worship of diversity — at least it used to be. We buy them at Walmart now and they just sell the generic Forever Stamps with the flag.
One of the “milk duds”.....LOL
The stamp will only be sold in Sel-muh - where his hard head got him a ticket to big time grift.
If there are choices, I want the American Flag. Animals next. I do like the elephant stamp, tho.
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