NEW YORK (AP) _ A U.S. postage stamp with the likeness of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers is being officially released.
Saturday was the so-called “first issuance'' of the Evers stamp, which is going on sale nationwide. A total of a dozen stamps honoring prominent civil rights activists are being issued this year.
Marking the occasion, his widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond were holding a news conference at a Manhattan hotel during the annual meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The organization is also planning to discuss an emergency resolution against a cartoon published earlier this week in the New York Post that many have interpreted as comparing Barack Obama to a chimpanzee shot by police. The Post apologized for the cartoon.
Pictured above is Medgar Evers.
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