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African Americans on World Wide Stamps

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 WW Issues Part X     WW Issues Part XI 
     

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is the most widely honored African American on foreign stamps. Here are just a few of those and a small selection of other world wide stamps honoring African Americans and Black History.

Ras Al Khaima is one of the United Arab Emirates 

MLK stamp issue 
from India

Mexico Issue

 


This stamp is from the Republic of Mali

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Ralph Johnson Bunche
Statesman, Diplomat
United Nations August 7, 2003
First Day of Issue Cover

St. Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla in the Caribbean

Imperforate Issue from the Republic of Dahomey

Cameroon honors 
Langston Hughes

Rosa Parks from the Marshall Islands

The Dominican Republic salutes
Jesse Owens

Senegal stamp featuring 
Frederick Douglass

 


Paul Robeson from the Republic of Mali

This Ghana Souvenir Sheet depicts Elmina Castle. Built by the Portuguese in 1471 it was the largest slave trading post in the world.

Nicaraguan stamp honoring 
Muhammad Ali

This stamp from Namibia celebrates Independence Day

Souvenir Sheet from St Vincent honors 
Dorie Miller 
Navy Cross Recipient
         
Special Reggie Jackson Issue St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Full Size View (commemorates Reggie's induction into Baseballs Hall of Fame

WW Issues Part I     WW  Issues Part II     WW Issues Part III
WW Issues Part IV     WW Issues Part V     WW Issues Part VI
WW Issues Part VII     WW Issues Part VIII     WW Issues Part IX
 WW Issues Part X    
WW Issues Part XI     

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