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[3] [4] The first US stamp honoring an American woman honored Martha Washington, and it was issued in 1902. [5] [6] In 1907, Pocahontas became the first Native American woman (and the first Native American) to be honored on a US stamp. [7] In 1978, Harriet Tubman became the first African-American woman to be honored on a US stamp. [8]
Through the years, a person has had to be deceased before their face appeared on a stamp, [1] though the USPS will document that a stamp has commemorated people, living or deceased, without including their actual face on the stamp – such as the image of a yellow submarine from the 1969 eponymous album cover shown on the 1999 stamp [2 ...
Under the 2022 Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Commemorative Coin Act (Public Law 117-163), the U.S. Mint was directed to issue $5 gold coins, $1 silver coins and half-dollar clad coins as part of the ...
The gallery features information about figures including William Lloyd Garrison, a leading abolitionist; Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave and "conductor" on the Underground Railroad; and Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became an abolitionist and powerful orator.
The coin collection is comprised of five-dollar gold coins, one-dollar silver coins and half-dollar coins which all have images of Tubman and represent different stages of her fight for justice ...
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An entry in her diary in 1861 read, "Fitted out a fugitive slave for Canada with the help of Harriet Tubman." [55] Susan B. Anthony. In 1856, Anthony agreed to become the New York State agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society with the understanding that she would also continue her advocacy of women's rights. [56]
Tubman was a famous 19th century abolitionist who escaped slavery and became the conductor of the Underground Railroad, a system of secret safe houses that successfully helped free hundreds of slaves.