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  • 2000-06-07 (xsd:date)
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  • Martin Luther King Stamp (en)
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  • This piece is a variation of the venerable warning that the USPS's series of Black Heritage stamps will be discontinued and the remaining stock destroyed if more people didn't start buying them, and just like that warning, most of the information in this one is erroneous: Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2000] The Martin Luther King stamp is not new (it was issued in 1999), nor can it be purchased by itself. It is part of the Postal Service's Celebrate the Century program, a series of stamps commemorating notable American people, places, and events from every decade of the 20th century. The I Have a Dream stamp is but one of the fifteen stamps marking important events from the 1960s, such as the moon landing, the Vietnam War, and the Woodstock festival. If you want to purchase these stamps because you like their design, you want to honor Dr. King, or you want to support black heritage, so much the better. But you don't have to purchase them to keep them from being recalled and destroyed. The USPS has no plans to discontinue the Celebrate the Century program. In fact, it was the centerpiece of a special Amtrak train (the Celebrate the Century Express) full of stamp and historical displays that was making a tour of the USA through the fall of 2000. (en)
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