Georg Oldenwww.aiga.org/medalist-georgolden/
A first class postage stamp is 44 cents.
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44-Cent First Class : February 4th , 2011 .
ben Franklin
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Booker T. Washington
Georg Oldenwww.aiga.org/medalist-georgolden/
Harriet Tubman
The first African-American woman honored on her own stamp was Harriet Tubman in 1978. Some of the letter-sorters shown on a 1973 stamp appear to black women.
Amelia Earhart
That would be Booker T. Washington in about 1940.
{| |- | US Scott Number 873. It was a ten cent value that was part of the Famous Americans Series. Booker T. Washington was the first black American to be honored on a U.S. postage stamp issue. His boyhood home was later pictured on a stamp as well. |}
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
The penny black was the worlds first postage stamp in 1840.
A profile bust of Queen Victoria was pictured on the first postage stamp.
Great Britain issued the first postage stamp in 1840.