Nation IN BRIEF : INDIANA : U.S. Postal Service Honors Jesse Jackson
Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson became the first living black to be honored on a U.S. postmark. At a U.S. Postal Service ceremony in Indianapolis honoring a “Blacks on Stamps” series, the postmark--the stamp cancellation mark on an envelope--showed Jackson’s likeness in a collage with other black leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Postal Service said that Jackson became the first living black and only the second living person on a postmark since one honored the former astronaut and current U.S. senator, John Glenn (D-Ohio.)
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