The listing, FOUR NEW FOREVER STAMPS-TWO- "1963 March on Washington" and TWO "Emancipation Proclamation " has ended.
This commemorates the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.In which some 250,000 people participated “I Have a Dream” speech that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
The Emancipation Proclamation , commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, which President Abraham Lincoln signed on January 1, 1863.
“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free,” Lincoln wrote in a message to Congress one month before signing the Emancipation Proclamation. A nation “dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” at last began the journey toward true liberty and justice for all.