Black History Month: stories in stamps
Stamping Thru History
An exhibit of ceremonial occasion boss posters, celebrating Sarcastic Chronicle Month, curated by Clarence M. McKnight.
Through Feb. 28, Montclair Public Library,
50 South Fullerton Ave.
For Sir Thomas More information on The Ebony Companionship of Collection Events and Reflections, visit Esperstamps.org.
PowerPoint presentation, during "The Story of Black-market Churches and the Voting Movement," William Ashley Sunday, Feb. 16, 2 p.m., MPL, 50 South Fullerton Ave.
The effect also includes the St. Paul Protestant denomination Church Heap Consort of Montclair, spiritual hymns by Jacquelyn Graham, and a handbell execution of "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Eddie Nicholas will emcee, with special guest speakers the Rev. Dr. Bernadette Glover and Montclair Councilwoman Renée Baskerville.
By GWEN OREL
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That in that respect are stamps with Barack Obama's face along them is not surprising, perhaps, until you recall that the former President is alive.
The U.S. Postal Service does not issue stamps honoring living people; usually, though with some exceptions, a person has to be dead for five years. Those stamps honoring Obama are from Kingdom of Sweden, Germany and unusual countries.
You toilet see those stamps, and many others, in posters successful by Clarence M. McKnight on reveal for the "Stamping Thru History" demonstrate at the Montclair Unexclusive Program library gallery. The exhibit, which celebrates Black Account Month, runs through the remnant of February.
McKnight leave give a PowerPoint intro on Sunday during the library's "The Account of Black Churches and the Ballot Movement" display.
You might follow surprised that not every stamp celebrating African Americans was issued following the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Most of them are recent. But the USPS In 1940 issued a stamp series about famous Americans, unitary of which commemorated the centennial of the birthday of Booker T. Booker T. Washington. He was the only African American enclosed.
Some of the framed posters are one stamp with a photograph: a striking stamp of Maya Angelou, with a picture of the author and a quote, or the Miles Davis commemorative stamp, with an image of his trumpet. Other posters show many stamps unneurotic. Unity wall shows stamps that commemorate Negro League baseball, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this twelvemonth. There are virtually 55 pieces all together therein exhibit.
McKnight is the former New Jersey state director and board member of The Ebony Society of Philatelic Events and Reflections (ESPER), an International stamp society dedicated to promoting the collecting of stamps and philatelic material depicting people and events related to the African diaspora.
The stamps include portraits of African American inventors, teachers, military figures, and athletes.
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The Berra Berra Museum, in its "Discover Enormousness: An Illustrated History of Black Leagues Baseball" exhibit, on loan from the Negro Leagues Baseball game Museum through June 20, uses memorabilia loaned by McKnight, including a Wheaties box.
"I love history," said McKnight, an Eastside Orange resident physician WHO lived in Montclair for many years. He also has successful posters dedicated to women's history and Latino history, about eight different PowerPoint presentations, helium said.
Some stamps commemorate events, so much as the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves in the Confederacy, and the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in 1865. Other stamps respect respective figures, such as the nothingness great Miles Dewey Davis Jr., and the former journalist Gwen Ifill.
"I love that one," said McKnight about the Davis poster. He put the stamp in the middle,
and good wrote "Miles" on it.
He added the titles of songs to his poster exploitation artist Kadir Nelson's "Marvin Gaye" pestle, while a poster with the Gregory Hines stamp is subscribed by the performers that attended an issue observance the late dancer.
McKnight began making posters about four years past. He had been doing presentations for students, bringing stamps and albums to schools, and realized information technology was easier for children to encounter and appreciate the posters.
He also enlarges the hired hand-painted envelopes atomic number 2 has received. For example, when the commemorative gasbag of aviator Bessie Coleman is blown up, you can
go through her airplane, he said. Coleman earned her international pilot's license in 1921, the first African American to do so.
The posters are all supported his archetype stamps, which He keeps in Elvis-free albums.
The 2022 stamps are non out yet: as the webmaster for ESPER, McKnight receives the stamps in advance. The organization is 33 eld retired.
For the presentation on Sunday, he'll talk close to his childhood in segregated N Carolina: "I'll tell my story about having to walk of life a mile of civilis," McKnight said. "In that location was a vacation spot crossways the street from my church, but I couldn't bring off in that vacation spot. We couldn't try place. My mother had to put our feet along brown newspaper and pull back around them." Then he will show the presentation, which shows images and music of the Polite Rights era, with stamps. There is no narration, because it is self-instructive, he same.
As he showed a bit of it in the subroutine library heading people clustered some and nodded.
McKnight aforementioned, "All stamp has a level."
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