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The 1994 Jazz and Blues Singers issue honored eight performers in eight separate stamp designs. This article focuses on Mildred Bailey and distinguishes the musician’s documented career from later stories about the stamp.

The 1994 Jazz and Blues Singers issue honored eight performers in eight separate stamp designs. This article focuses on Ma Rainey and distinguishes the musician’s documented career from later stories about the stamp.

The 1994 Jazz and Blues Singers issue honored eight performers in eight separate stamp designs. This article focuses on Billie Holiday and distinguishes the musician’s documented career from later stories about the stamp.

The 1994 Jazz and Blues Singers issue honored eight performers in eight separate stamp designs. This article focuses on Bessie Smith and distinguishes the musician’s documented career from later stories about the stamp.

The 1994 Jazz and Blues Singers issue consists of eight separate 29-cent designs. It does not depict eight performers on one stamp.

Barbara Jordan was a Texas legislator, U.S. representative, lawyer, educator, and nationally recognized constitutional voice whose career joined public service with a sustained defense of constitutional government.

Jan Ernst Matzeliger developed a lasting machine that mechanized a difficult stage of shoemaking. This account separates his patent work, the machine’s industrial adoption, and the USPS stamp issued much later in his honor.

USPS honored Count Basie in the 1996 Big Band Leaders issue. The four-stamp set was released on September 11, 1996, in New York City.

The United We Stand stamp was part of the postal response to the national atmosphere after the September 11, 2001 attacks, combining a familiar flag image with a short message of solidarity.

Roy Wilkins, who died on September 8, 1981, spent decades working through the NAACP for civil rights. USPS honored him with a Black Heritage stamp on January 24, 2001.