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Black Heritage Series 2

Langston Hughes

Scott # 3557

Issued Feb. 1, 2002

Photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Thurgood Marshall

Scott # 3746

Issued Jan. 7, 2003

Photo: Abdon Daoud Ackad, Sr.

Paul Robeson

Scott # 3834

Issued Jan. 20, 2004

Photo: Annette and Basil Zarov

Marian Anderson

Scott # 3896

Issued Jan. 27, 2005

Artist: Albert Slark

Hattie McDaniel 

Scott # 3996

Issued Jan. 25, 2006

Artist: Tim O'Brien

Ella Fitzgerald

Scott # 4120

Issued Jan. 10, 2007

Artist: Paul Davis

Charles W. Chesnutt

Scott # 4222

Issued Jan. 31, 2008

Artist: Kazuhiko Sano

Anna Julia Cooper

Scott # 4408

Issued June 11, 2009

Artist: Kadir Nelson

Oscar Michaeux

Scott # 4464

Issued June 10, 2010

Artist: Gary Kelley

Barbara Jordan

Scott # 4565

Issued Jan. 27, 2011

Artist: Albert Slark

John H. Johnson

Scott # 4624

Issued Jan. 31, 2012

Photo: Davis McCann

Althea Gibson

Scott # 4803

Issued Aug. 23, 2013

Artist: Kadir Nelson

Shirley Chisholm

Scott # 4856

Issued Jan. 31, 2014

Artist: Robert Shetterly

Robert Robinson Taylor

Scott # 4958

Issued Feb. 12, 2015

Photo: MIT Archives

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Richard Allen

Scott # 5056

Issued Feb. 2, 2016

Image: Bishops of the A.M.E. Church

Dorothy Height

Scott # 5171

Issued Feb. 1, 2017

Artist: Thomas Blackshear II

Lena Horne

Scott # 5259

Issued Jan. 30, 2018

Photo: Christian Steiner

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Gregory Hines

Scott # 5349

Issued Jan. 28, 2019

Photo: Jack Mitchell

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Gwen Ifill

Scott # 5432

Issued Jan. 30, 2020

Photo: Robert Severi

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August Wilson

Scott # 5555

Issued Jan. 28, 2021

Artist: Tim O'Brien

Edmonia Lewis

Scott # 5663

Issued Jan. 26, 2022

Artist: Alex Bostic

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Ernest J. Gaines

Scott # 5753 

Issued Jan. 23, 2023

Artist: Robert Peterson

Constance Baker Motley

Scott # 5830

Issued Jan. 31, 2024

Artist:  Charly Palmer

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