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| This renowned African American educator appeared on a 10 cent stamp in 1940. He was the founder of the Tuskegee Institute | Booker T. Washington |
| This 3 cent stamp in 1940 depicted the amendment that ended slavery | 13th Amendment |
| This scientist was know for his work with agriculture specifically the peanut. He was depicted on a 3 cent stamp in 1948 | George Washington Carver |
| This 5 cent stamp in 1963 depicted the document that freed most slaves in the U.S. in 1863. | The Emancipation Proclamation |
| This 25 cent stamp depicted one of the leaders of the abolitionist movement who helped found the newspaper The North Star | Frederick Douglas |
| This six cent stamp in 1969 depicted this musical composer, the father of the Blues | W. C. Handy |
| This 8 cent stamp in 1973 depicted this first African-American artist to gain international acclaim. | Henry Tanner |
| This 10 cent stamp in 1975 depicted this writer who wrote Lyrics from a Lowly Life | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
| This 13 cent stamp in 1978 depicted one of the conductors on the Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman |
| This 15 cent stamp in 1980 depicted the early surveyor and planner of Washington D.C. | Benjamin Banneker |
| This 15 cent stamp depicted the leader of the National Urban League | Whitney Young Jr. |
| This 35 cent stamp in 1981 depicted this doctor who pioneered storing blood. | Dr. Charles Drew |
| This 20 cent stamp in 1982 depicted this diplomat who won a Noble Peace Prize in 1950 | Ralph Bunche |
| This 20 cent issue in 1982 was part of the Black Heritage series depicting the man who integrated baseball. | Jackie Robinson |
| This 20 cent issue in 1983 depicted the King of Ragtime | Scott Joplin |
| This 20 cent issue in 1984 depicted the founder of Black History Month | Carter G. Woodson |
| This 22 cent stamp in 1985 depicted this educator | Mary McLeod Buthune |
| This 22 cent 1986 issue depicted the abolitionist and women's rights advocate | Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree) |
| This band leader and saxophonist was depicted on a 22 cent 1986 stamp. | Duke Ellington |
| This 22 cent 1986 issue depicted the man who was part of the first expedition to reach the North Pole | Matthew Henson |
| He was the first non-indigenous settler of what would become Chicago | Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable |
| First African-American to be executive secretary of the NAACP | James Weldon Johnson |
| Educator and journalist | Ida B. Wells |
| Athlete who won several gold medals in track at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin | Jesse Owens |
| This inventor developed a system of manufacturing shoes | Jan Matzeliger |
| This research chemist was a pioneer to deriving medicines from plants | Percy Julian |
| This union leader was head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters | A. Philip Randolph |
| R and B singer of the 1950s and 1960s | Clyde McPhatter |
| Known for soul music and Rhythm and Blues | Otis Redding |
| Professional Boxer heavyweight champion from 1937-1949 | Joe Louis |
| 10th Cavalry Regiment based at Ft. Leavenworth Kansas | Buffalo Soldiers |
| American singer and jazz pianist. | Nat King Cole |
| Famous jazz and pop singer | Ethel Waters |
| American jazz singer nicknamed Lady Day | Billie Holiday |
| 50 cent stamp in 2018 celebrated this performer's 70 years in show business as a singer and actress | Lena Horne |
| This 49 cent issue in 2017 honored Ezra Jack Keats classic story about a young African American boy | The Snowy Day |
| 49 cents 2016 celebrated this American jazz singer nicknamed Sassy | Sarah Vaughan |
| This stamp celebrated the first African American to pitch in a World Series game. | Satchel Page |
| This 49 cent issue celebrated the founder of the AME church | Richard Allen |
| 49 cents 2014 | Wilt Chamberlain |
| This 37 cent issue in 2005 celebrated the tennis great who the National Tennis Center in NY is named after | Arthur Ashe |
| This 37 cent issue in 2005 celebrates the opera great who was not allowed to perform at the Daughters of the American Revolution Hall in Washington | Marian Anderson (Eleanor Roosevelt facilitated her doing an outdoor concert at the Lincoln Memorial) |
| This 37 cent 2004 issue celebrates the author of Native Son | James Baldwin |
| This photography great was known for taking pictures of New Yorkers | James Van Der Zhee |
| This 2002 issue celebrates one of the greats of the Harlem Renaissance. | Langston Hughes |
| This 2001 issue celebrates the long time head of the NAACP | Roy Wilkins |
| This 2001 issue celebrates an African holiday | Kwanzaa |
| This stamp celebrates the Home Run King of the Negro Leagues | Josh Gibson |
| A stamp celebrated this "Mother of the Blues" | Ma Rainey |
| She was known as the "Empress of the Blues" | Bessie Smith |
| This musician is considered the father of Modern Chicago Bulls | Muddy Waters |
| She was the first female African-American Pilot | Bessie Coleman |
| A 32 cent stamp in 1995 was issued for this trumpeter nicknamed Sactmo | Louis Armstrong |
| His nickname was Yardbird and he was the developer of bebop | Charlie Parker |
| This noted American jazz saxophonist was honored with a stamp in 1995 | John Coltrane |
| This American jazz pianist and band leader was honored with a stamp in 1996 | Count Basie |
| American ragtime and early jazz musician | Jelly Roll Morton |
| This 49 cent 2016 stamp celebrated the head of the National Council of Negro Women | Dorothy Height |
