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U.S. Postal Service Unveils John Lewis Stamp

The civil rights icon passed away in July 2020.

The U.S. Postal Service has announced the subjects and designs coming in 2023, and civil rights icon John Lewis is included.

According to USPS, the stamp is a photograph of Lewis taken by Marco Grob for Time magazine in August 2013, see below:

Lewis was a tireless activist for civil rights for longer than 60 years. He joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his fight for voting rights when he was in his 20s. Lewis was also known for chairing and confounding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He led the march that was halted by police violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in 1965, a landmark event in the history of the civil rights movement that later became known as “Bloody Sunday.”

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In 1961, while participating in the Freedom Rides to challenge the segregation of Southern interstate bus terminals, Lewis was brutally beaten and arrested. In 1963, Lewis played a large role in the historic March on Washington. Lewis, a Democrat, served in Congress since 1987. In late 2019, he discovered he had Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

He passed away on July 17, 2020 in Atlanta. He was 80 years old.

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