A U.S. postage stamp with the likeness of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers has been officially released.
The 42-cent Evers stamp now goes on sale nationwide. He's one of a dozen civil rights pioneers taking their places of honor on six new U.S. postage stamps.
Marking the occasion, his widow Myrlie Evers-Williams and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond held a news conference Saturday at a Manhattan hotel during the annual meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The other stamps honor Ella Baker, Daisy Gatson Bates, J.R. Clifford, Fannie Lou Hamer, Charles Hamilton Houston, Ruby Hurley, Mary White Ovington, Joel Elias Spingarn, Mary Church Terrell, Oswald Garrison Villard and Walter White.
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