2023 John Lewis Forever Postage Stamps – First-Class Mail, Sheet

$29.00

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5 Sheets of (75 Pcs) 25 Sheets of (375 Pcs) 50 Sheets of (750 Pcs)

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The selvage of the sheet includes a photograph taken by Steve Schapiro in 1963 outside a workshop on non-violent protest in Clarksdale, Missouri.

Lewis was born in the still-segregated state of Alabama. When he was 11, he visited Buffalo, New York, with his uncle and saw firsthand what life was like without segregation. Soon after, Lewis became interested in civil rights. He met Rosa Parks when he was 17 and Martin Luther King Jr. the following year. Lewis organized sit-ins and other protests in Nashville while a student at Fisk University. It was around this time he coined the concept of “good trouble, necessary trouble.”