Courage: Rosa Parks Full Sheet of 20 x Forever Stamps, USA

Courage: Rosa Parks Full Sheet of 20 x Forever Stamps, USA 2013, Scott 4742
- Collectible or for use as Postage
- Has brief history of Rosa Parks on the back side (see the 2nd image)
Rosa Parks sheet of 20 x Forever U.S. Postage Stamps Issue Date Feb. 4, 2013 The U.S. Postal Service 2013 Rosa Parks (Forever) stamp honors the life of this extraordinary American activist who became an iconic figure in the civil rights movement. In 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks courageously refused to give up her seat on a municipal bus to a white man, defying the discriminatory laws of the time. The stamp art, a gouache painting on illustration board, is a portrait of Parks emphasizing her quiet strength. A 1950s photograph served as the basis for the stamp portrait. The response to Parks's arrest was a boycott of the Montgomery bus system that lasted for more than a year and became an international cause cÂ©lÂ¨bre. In 1956, in a related case, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that segregating Montgomery buses was unconstitutional. Soon after the boycott ended, Parks moved to Detroit, Michigan. She joined the 1963 march on Washington and returned to Alabama in 1965 to join the march from Selma to Montgomery. The many honors Parks received in her lifetime include the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1966), the Spingarn Medal (1979), and the Congressional Gold Medal (1999). Upon her death in 2005, she became the first woman and second African American to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC. Artist Thomas Blackshear II created an original painting for the stamp, which was designed by art director Derry Noyes. The stamp honoring Rosa Parks is one of three stamps in the civil rights set celebrating freedom, courage, and equality being issued in 2013. It is being issued as a Forever stamp. Forever stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail one-ounce rate. Made in the USA.
Country USA
Brand United States Postal Service
Manufacturer USPS
Binding Toy
ItemPartNumber na
Color Green
Size Small
UPCs 611393787371
EANs 0787793382062
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	United States Postal Service
Manufacturer	USPS
Binding	Toy
ItemPartNumber	na
Color	Green
Size	Small
UPCs	611393787371
EANs	0787793382062
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Courage: Rosa Parks Full Sheet of 20 x Forever Stamps, USA 2013, Scott 4742

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