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struggle4progress

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Sun Feb 3, 2013, 03:41 AM Feb 2013

Stamp ceremony kicks off day in Parks' honor

Cassandra Spratling, Detroit Free Press
12a.m. EST February 3, 2013
The Postal Service is releasing a stamp in Rosa Parks' honor on Monday.

DETROIT -- In honor of Rosa Parks, the U.S. Postal Service on Monday morning is releasing a commemorative forever stamp with her image.

It will first be unveiled during a birthday breakfast celebration and live radio broadcast Monday at the Charles Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. A second unveiling will take place later that afternoon at The Henry Ford museum complex in Dearborn, Mich., where activities are going on all day in honor of Parks ...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/02/rosa-parks-stamp/1885129/

Monday is her 100th birthday

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1. K&R
Sun Feb 3, 2013, 06:46 AM
Feb 2013

Happy Birthday Rosa Parks. I like to use commemorative stamps and will pick some up as soon as they are available. Thanks for posting... Will try to watch C-Span for the ceremony on Monday...

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