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John Lewis is the Latest Black Pioneer To Be Featured on a Postage Stamp

The U.S. Postal Service has announced that a postage stamp honoring late congressman John Lewis will be issued in 2023.

The Lewis stamp features a photo of the Georgia Democrat that Marco Grob took for a 2013 issue of Time magazine, CNN reports. 

As one of the original Freedom Riders in 1961 and as a follower and colleague of Martin Luther King Jr., Lewis helped organize the March on Washington in 1963. He dedicated his life to the civil rights movement until his death at age 80 in 2020 from advanced-stage pancreatic cancer.

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SourceThe Grio
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