On May 1, 1963, JFK unveiled a US postal stamp
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On May 1, 1963, JFK unveiled a US postal stamp designed by Georg Olden (second from left) commemorating the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Olden was the first African American to design a US postal stamp.