The Quiz: Who was the first African American to be featured on a U.S. postage stamp?
Booker T. Washington
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1940, Booker T. Washington became the first African American to grace a U.S. postage stamp, when the Post Office Department included him in its Famous Americans series. A former enslaved person turned activist and educator, Washington advocated for self-improvement and self-reliance to help Black Americans rise above racial injustice. He also founded the Tuskegee Normal School, later renamed the Tuskegee Institute, in 1881 in Alabama.
The correct answer to this quiz is Booker T. Washington.