(WDBJ) - The Booker T. Washington National Monument is where ... “He was the first African American on a U.S. postage stamp and on a 50-cent coin. He wrote Up From Slavery. . . He started ...

President Trump proposed bringing the independent service under the Commerce Department purview. That would upend decades of historical independence.

Pocahontas was the first Native American to be honored with a postage stamp (1907). The first Black person on a stamp was activist and educator Booker T. Washington (1940). After World War II ...