Shirley Chisholm Honored With
New Black History Postage Stamp
A new US postage stamp
honors pioneering New York congresswoman Shirley Chisholm just
in time for Black History Month.
The latest addition to the U.S. Postal Service’s Black Heritage series
was introduced to several members
of Congress at the First-Day-OfIssue Ceremony in Brooklyn on
January 31, 2014.
Chisholm is best known as
the first African-American woman
elected to Congress (representing a
Brooklyn district from 1969 to
1983), and the first major-party
black candidate and the second
woman to seek the presidential
nomination. She ran on the Democratic ticket in 1972.
Congresswoman Carolyn
Maloney, who currently holds
Chisholm’s seat in New York’s
Canada Issues two
12th Congressional District, described Chisholm as “one of my Black History Stamps
biggest heroines.”
Canada Post issued two
Chisholm, a Bedford- stamps on January 20th honoring
Stuyvesant resident, died in 2005. Black history month. The top stamp
She was 80.
recognizes
Africville,
one of Nova
Scotia's oldest AfroCanadian
communities. The
bottom
stamp recognizes Hogan's Alley
in Vancouver, British
Columbia.
The woman
pictured in the stamp is Nora Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix's grandmother.
Both towns no longer exist.
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