• OUR HERITAGE OF BLACK WOMEN: Elizabeth Freeman (?-1829) Litigator, Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) Rights Leader, Zora Hurston (1901-1960) Folklorist, Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) “Conductor.” Tubman blazed Underground Railroading trails; Hurston logged Afro-America’s Tales; Wells the Crusader said “Justice be done!” And Freeman—Free Woman—sued & won! Harriet Tubman, First Day of Issue.
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Harriet Tubman, Black Women Heritage First Day Cover

From Women Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press by Julia M. Allen and Jocelyn H. Cohen

  • The First Black Woman on a U.S. Stamp. The Harriet Tubman 13¢ commemorative stamp, issued February 1, 1978, was the first in U.S. philatelic history to honor a Black woman. The stamp was long overdue: since earliest colonial times, Black women have led in great civil and cultural changes for their own people and for society as a whole.
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